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Is there a nice tool to monitor how much heap memory each of the OSGI bundles take over time ?

Thanks, Retep

Retep Poranov
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It is not generally possible to identify the amount of memory used by an individual bundle; only the amount of memory used by the whole application.

For example: suppose bundle A calls a method provided by bundle B, and the method in bundle B creates an object. Who is responsible for the memory consumed by that object? Bundle B created it directly, but it would not have done so if bundle A hadn't asked it to. So we cannot really assign that memory consumption to either A or B.

For monitoring memory consumption of the whole application I recommend YourKit and/or Eclipse Memory Analyzer.

Neil Bartlett
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  • thank you for your answer, yes currently I am using YourKit for the heap map analysis. Currently, I have added custom reporting to some bundles to check their usage statistics to have a profe of what's going on. – Retep Poranov Mar 11 '13 at 11:37