METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INSPECTING MEMORY LEAKS AND ANALYZING CONTENTS OF GARBAGE COLLECTION FILES

A system method is provided to inspect memory leaks and analyze contents of garbage collection files. In one embodiment, a garbage collection file is selected from a plurality of garbage collection files at a file system. The garbage collection file includes histograms. Each histogram is compared with other histograms in the garbage collection file to identify objects associated with memory leaks The results of such comparison are provided.