Viewing the Heap Summary
The heap summary can help to see the performance of your application in
terms of object allocations. This gross level view provides information
concerning live instances and bytes, total allocated instances and bytes
can also be viewed. The data to be displayed may be controlled via
jMechanic preferences and menus defined within the view.
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View Menu Items
Included Data
Use this menu item to select the heap summary data to be included in
the heap summary graph.
Update Interval
Use this menu item to specify the interval between updates of the
summary data.
NOTE: The lower this interval is set,
the greater the impact on performance of the running application.
View Toolbar Items
Request Garbage Collection
Use this item to request a garbage collection in the profiled
application.
Pause Updates
Use this item to pause further updates of the heap summary data.
Resume Updates
Use this item to resume updating the heap summary data.