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1. Download the trial version of JProfiler http://www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/trial
2. Watch this video for how to use it http://blog.ej-technologies.com/2009/04/in-screencast-below-i-show-strategy-for.html
3. If for example the memory leak is in unit tests, you might insert the following code in the tear down method to cause the JVM to take a break between tests to allow you to manually run GC and see which objects created by the test were not cleaned up

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   @After public void tearDown() throws Exception { testHelper.tearDown(); helper.tearDown(); System.out.println("force a GC here and see what objects remain that should not"); try { InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(System.in); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr); System.out.println("Enter the line :- "); String s = br.readLine(); System.out.println("You have Entered :- " + s); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } }

Scenario OutOfMemory exception due to heap space on the Bamboo build

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