How to view memory usage in eclipse (beginner)

Question

I have been working on a game in java using eclipse for a few months now and I have been trying to figure out how to view the memory usage and what is using the most memory. Can anyone please give me a step by step answer on how I would go about doing this? Thank you.

Answer 1

In eclipse you can try Window --> Preferences --> General --> "Show heap status" checkbox

Answer 2

You can use a good monitoring tool like VisualVM.