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Profiling Windows Services

Netbeans ships with a robust profiler which is easy to use and minimally invasive. You don’t even have to be using Netbeans as your development environment (I use IntelliJ) or even be on the same machine running the VM you want to profile. Thus you can troubleshoot a production environment from afar. Yesterday I figuredContinue reading “Profiling Windows Services”

Detecting Memory Leaks

Troubleshooting a problem over last weekend I ran into a classic memory leak. Yes, you can have memory leaks in Java! If you hold onto references to objects than the Java virtual machine cannot reclaim those objects. In my case, I was processing millions of records but not giving yielding and allowing an object cacheContinue reading “Detecting Memory Leaks”