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my experience

Posted by kamesh on August 04, 2001 at 8:24 AM

> Hi,

> I have an object of class java.util.List. now this object conatains information in the form of an array of other objects. I need to know the size of this main List object in terms of bytes. Please help me in finding this size.

> Thankfully,
> Tanu.

Hi

I had tried using Runtime.totalMemory () and freeMemory() functions. I calculate the memory before & after creation of objects and computing the size from the difference. Unfortunately, that is giving me weird figs. Sory, hope u got an idea.

mail me if you got a solution

Thanx
kamesh