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Heap usage keeps growing even after a Full GC runs. What's happening and how do you investigate?

Tests whether you know this is the classic signature of a memory leak — objects still reachable that shouldn't be — and how heap dump analysis finds it.

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Heap usage keeps growing even after a Full GC runs. What's happening and how do you investigate?

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