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I don’t know anyone who likes investigating a Java heap dump. They can be massive — literally multiple gigs in size. They contain so much information that identifying the cause of a JVM memory leak ...

This API provides safe and efficient access to memory outside the Java heap. New concepts such as memory segments and memory layouts offer fine-grained control over memory allocation, access and ...

Java 12 enhances G1 to automatically return Java heap memory to the operating system when idle. This memory is released in a reasonable period of time when there is very low application activity.