Diagnosis documentation

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The material on garbage collection and storage allocation might prove helpful in tuning performance.

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• IBM Garbage Collection and Storage Allocation Techniques
  (April 2005)
   
• Windows Java address space
  How to maximize the IBM Java memory address space on 32-bit Windows systems
  (December 2005)

• Heaproots
  This tool from alphaWorks can be used for debugging memory leaks in Java applications by analyzing heap dumps.
  


• HeapAnalyzer
  This tool from alphaWorks analyzes heap dumps and presents the results in a Graphical User Interface.
   
• IBM Support Assistant(ISA)
  ISA is a service tool containing product information, helpful links, and tools for JVM debugging.