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Bug 190903

Summary:	[HeapWalker] incorrect computation of GC roots
Product:	profiler	Reporter:	Tomas Hurka <thurka>
Component:	Engine	Assignee:	Tomas Hurka <thurka>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	VISUALVM
Priority:	P2
Version:	6.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description Tomas Hurka 2010-10-11 12:27:51 UTC

Instance on any class implicitly holds its class. This information is not reflected in the heapwalker
and as a result GC root path for some instances are not computed correctly. As a result open attached heap dump and compute GC root path for instance com.sun.tools.javac.code.Scope#29.

Comment 1 Tomas Hurka 2010-10-11 13:22:17 UTC

Test heap dump is available here: <http://profiler.netbeans.org/download/files/class_instance_heapdump.hprof.bz2>

Comment 2 Tomas Hurka 2010-10-11 14:26:08 UTC

Fixed in profiler-main

changeset:   179217:1eb359d32558
user:        Tomas Hurka <thurka@netbeans.org>
date:        Mon Oct 11 16:13:59 2010 +0200
summary:     bugfix #190903, synthetic <class> field added to simulate that instance holds its class