官方關於如何使用MAT的說明

2、官方關於如何使用MAT的說明

http://help.eclipse.org/mars/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.mat.ui.help%2Fgettingstarted%2Fbasictutorial.htmlhtml

Memory Analyzer > Getting Startedjava

Basic Tutorial

This tutorial provides a "jumping-off place" to get familiar with Memory Analyzer.node

Step 1 - Getting a Heap Dumpapp

The Memory Analyzer works with heap dumps . Such a heap dump contains information about all Java objects alive at a given point in time. All current Java Virtual Machines can write heap dumps, but the exact steps depend on vendor, version and operation system. Find out more in the section Acquiring Heap Dumps .dom

Open  a sample heap dump if you view this page inside the Eclipse help center.eclipse

For the purpose of this tutorial, we use Java 6 and JConsole on Windows. Start your application with Java 6, then start <jre6>/bin/jconsole.exe and select the running application (in this case Eclipse):jsp

JConsole dialog to open a connection to a Virtual Machine.

Then, select the operation dumpHeap from the com.sun.management.HotSpotDiagnostic MBean. The first parameter p0 is the full path to the heap dump file. Make sure you give it the file extension .hprof. The second parameter p1 should be left at true as we are only interested in live objects.ide

Select the dumpHeap method of the HotspotDiagnostics mbean.

Step 2 - The Overviewpost

Open the heap dump via File >  Open Heap Dump... to see the overview page.ui

Memory Analyzer's overview page for a heap dump

On the right, you'll find the size of the dump and the number of classes, objects and class loaders.

Right below, the pie chart gives an impression on the biggest objects in the dump. Move your mouse over a slice to see the details of the objects in the object inspector on the left. Click on any slice to drill down and follow for example the outgoing references.

Step 3 - The Histogram

Select the histogram from the tool bar to list the number of instances per class, the shallow size and the retained size .

Histogram

The Memory Analyzer displays by default the retained size of individual objects. However, the retained size of a set of objects - in this case all instances of a particular class - needs to be calculated.

To approximate the retained sizes for all rows, pick Calculate retained size icon from the tool bar. Alternatively, select a couple rows and use the context menu.

Select calculate retained sizes from the tool bar

Using the context menu , you can drill-down into the set of objects which the selected row represents. For example, you can list the objects with outgoing or incoming references. Or group the objects by the value of an attribute. Or group the collections by their size. Or or or...

One thing that makes the Memory Analyzer so powerful is the fact that one can run any action on any set of objects. Just drill down and slice your objects the way you need them.

Drill down via the context menu

Another important feature is the facility to group any histogram by class loader, packages or superclass .

Group the histogram by class loader or package via the tool bar

Any decent application loads different components by different class loaders. The Memory Analyzer attaches a meaningful label to the class loader - in the case of OSGi bundles it is the bundle id. Therefore it becomes a lot easier to divide the heap dump into smaller parts.

More: Analyze Class Loader

Histogram grouped by class loader

Grouping the histogram by packages allows to drill-down along the Java package hierarchy.

Histogram grouped by packages

Grouping the histogram by superclass provides an easy way to find for example all the subclasses of java.util.AbstractMap, etc...

Histogram grouped by superclass

Step 4 - The Dominator Tree

The dominator tree displays the biggest objects in the heap dump. The next level of the tree lists those objects that would be garbage collected if all incoming references to the parent node were removed.

The dominator tree is a powerful tool to investigate which objects keep which other objects alive. Again, the tree can be grouped by class loader (e.g. components) and packages to ease the analysis.

Dominator Tree

Step 5 - Path to GC Roots

Garbage Collections Roots (GC roots) are objects that are kept alive by the Virtual Machines itself. These include for example the thread objects of the threads currently running, objects currently on the call stack and classes loaded by the system class loader.

The (reverse) reference chain from an object to a GC root - the so called path to GC roots - explains why the object cannot be garbage collected. The path helps solving the classical memory leak in Java: those leaks exist because an object is still referenced even though the program logic will not access the object anymore.

Select path to GC roots from the context menu

Initially, the GC root reached by the shortest path is selected.

Path to GC roots

Step 6 - The Leak Report

The Memory Analyzer can inspect the heap dump for leak suspects, e.g. objects or set of objects which are suspiciously big.

Run the leak report

Learn more in this blog posting: Automated Heap Dump Analysis: Finding Memory Leaks with One Click .

Related concepts

Dominator Tree

Garbage Collection Roots

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