This topic explains the automated heap dump generation support, which is available only on IBM Software Development Kit and analyzes memory leak problems on AIX, Linux, and Windows operating systems.
Manually generating heap dumps at appropriate
times might be difficult. To help you analyze memory leak problems when memory
leak detection occurs, some automated heap dump generation support is available.
This functionality is available only for IBM Software Development
Kit on AIX, Linux, and Windows operating systems.
Most memory leak analysis tools perform some forms of difference evaluation on two heap dumps. Upon detection of a suspicious memory situation, two heap dumps are automatically generated at appropriate times. The general idea is to take an initial heap dump as soon as problem detection occurs. Monitor the memory usage and take another heap dump when you determine that enough memory is leaked, so that you can compare the heap dumps to find the source of the leak.
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