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Is there any way, given an object reference, to understand “Which live objects hold a reference to this object as a field?” (or any other reference for that matter).
Outputting it in a graphical manner can be nice as well.
What you are looking for is a MemoryProfiler.
There are some free and some commercial ones.
I use ANTS Memory Profiler and won’t miss it any more.
You can see what are the connections that are holding objects alive.
Also you can make multiple snapshots and then compare them afterwards, too see what objects are new, how has the count of all objects changed and so on.
Here’s a small walktrhough
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