In Java what is the best way to determine the size of an object

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let's say I have an application that can read in a CSV file with piles of data rows. I give the user a summary of the number of rows based on types of data, but I want to make sure that I don't read in too many rows of data and cause OutOfMemoryErrors. Each row translates into an object. Is there an easy way to find out the size of that object programmatically? Is there a reference that defines how large primitive types and object references are for a VM?

Right now, I have code that says read up to 32,000 rows, but I'd also like to have code that says read as many rows as possible until I've used 32MB of memory. Maybe that is a different question, but I'd still like to know.

Nov 22, 2018 in Java by Neha
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Please check the below code to arrive at the solution

You can use the java.lang.instrument package

Compile and put this class in a JAR:

import java.lang.instrument.Instrumentation;

public class ObjectSizeFetcher {
    private static Instrumentation instrumentation;

    public static void premain(String args, Instrumentation inst) {
        instrumentation = inst;
    }

    public static long getObjectSize(Object o) {
        return instrumentation.getObjectSize(o);
    }
}

Add the following to your MANIFEST.MF:

Premain-Class: ObjectSizeFetcher

Use getObjectSize:

public class C {
    private int x;
    private int y;

    public static void main(String [] args) {
        System.out.println(ObjectSizeFetcher.getObjectSize(new C()));
    }
}

Invoke with:

java -javaagent:ObjectSizeFetcherAgent.jar C

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answered Nov 22, 2018 by Frankie
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I happened to find a java class "jdk.nashorn.internal.ir.debug.ObjectSizeCalculator", already in jdk, which is easy to use and seems quite useful for determining the size of an object.

System.out.println(ObjectSizeCalculator.getObjectSize(new gnu.trove.map.hash.TObjectIntHashMap<String>(12000, 0.6f, -1)));

System.out.println(ObjectSizeCalculator.getObjectSize(new HashMap<String, Integer>(100000)));

System.out.println(ObjectSizeCalculator.getObjectSize(3));

System.out.println(ObjectSizeCalculator.getObjectSize(new int[]{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 }));

System.out.println(ObjectSizeCalculator.getObjectSize(new int[100]));

answered Aug 19, 2019 by Sirajul
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