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What causes memory leaks in Java?
Tests whether you know a Java 'leak' is really unintended reachability -- static collections that only grow, unclosed resources, listener/callback registrations never removed, or ThreadLocal values left behind in pooled threads -- not literal unmanaged memory like in C.
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