In some cases, garbage collection can be a significant portion of the
application and so it is important to be able to easily characterize the
scope and impact of garbage collection as shown in Figure 1. In this case
garbage collection is about 17% of the total CPU and occurs every 10 seconds
lasting for almost two seconds.
Figure 1
To see what functions or methods are the most active within a library
simply press the plus to expand the folder. In Figure 2 we have activated the
class selection so that we select the JIT library to be expanded by class
and then we have expanded the classes to display the methods used in the
classes. In each case we have selected three different methods and plotted
them.
Figure 2
