Given a heapdump or a running VM, how do I discover what the contents of the permanent generation is ? I know about 'jmap -permstat' but that's not available on Windows.

I'm developing on the standard Lift platform (maven and jetty). I'm repeatedly (once every couple of days) getting this: Exception in thread "7048009@qtp-3179125-12" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Pe...

I have been lately reading a lot on memory allocation schemes in java, and there have been many doubts as I have been reading from various sources. I have collected my concepts, and I would request...