The latest NetBeans Profiler milestone was released last week. While the Profiler has become a very polished piece of software, it is still in beta (technically, Early Access is the term). And with this release there is a small reminder of that: previous Profiler milestones must be uninstalled manually before installing M6. Be sure to read the details here, where you will be told to remove...
Last week's entry prompted Joseph Ottinger to ask the question: “how much should any given developer profile?â€
The resulting discussion over on TheServerSide made for interesting reading.
The discussion highlighted something that I neglected to mention in last week's entry: there is more than one type of profiling. The different JVM profilers that are available can only show you what is...
I used to be on a team that maintained a complicated web application that was leaking huge amounts of memory. Even when set to 2 gigabytes, the heap would run low on space, which slowed performance to a crawl as the garbage collector furiously ate up CPU cycles. Eventually an OutOfMemoryError would occur, which slowed performance all the way to a stop.
To diagnose the problem I ended up using...
