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Troubleshooting Java
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Troubleshooting Java

by Laurentiu Spilca
April 2023
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
8h 31m
English
Manning Publications
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Appendix E. Memory management in Java apps

In this appendix, we discuss how the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) manages the memory of a Java app. Some of the most challenging problems you’ll have to investigate in Java apps are related to the way the apps manage memory. Fortunately, we can use several techniques to analyze such problems and find their root causes, with minimal time invested. But to benefit from those techniques, you first need to know at least some basics about how a Java app manages its memory.

An app’s memory is a limited resource. Even if today’s systems can offer a large amount of memory for an app to use during its execution, we still need to be careful with how an app spends this resource. No system can offer unlimited memory ...

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