The general purpose heap analyzer
Yet another way to use the Memleak tool is as a general purpose heap analyzer. The Types panel shows relationships between the types (classes) on the Java heap. It can also list the specific instances in such a relationship. In the next example, we've found a peculiar cycle in our Type Graph. We can see that there are instances of Hashtable entries that are actually pointing back to their Hashtable. To list just the instances of Hashtable$Entry pointing to Hashtable, we simply right click on the number in the reference relation (see the following screenshot), and select List referring instances.
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