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Memory Leak Root Cause Triage Flow

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Flowchart outlining memory leak root cause analysis: GC curve evaluation, heap dump generation, dominator tree analysis, and patch deployment.
Flowchart outlining memory leak root cause analysis: GC curve evaluation, heap dump generation, dominator tree analysis, and patch deployment.
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What it shows

  • Check GC reclamation curves to differentiate real leaks from traffic spikes.
  • Dominator trees pinpoint instances holding references to millions of bytes.
  • Inspect retaining thread stacks to find lingering cache entries or listeners.

The takeaway

Systematic heap analysis isolates runaway object references without trial-and-error restarts.

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