[mat-dev] Clear only-softly-retained objects by default?

["Kevin Grigorenko" <kevin.grigorenko@xxxxxxxxxx>]

There was some confusion
by a MAT user observing 938MB of memory usage of only softly-retained objects.
This was found with Open Query Browser } Java Basics } References } Soft
references statistics and reviewing the Total line of the Shallow Heap
column in the Only Softly Retained tab.

An interesting
idea came up of clearing only softly-retained objects by default when parsing
a dump in the same way that MAT clears unreachable objects by default,
and having a similar preference of "Keep only-softly-retained objects".
Thoughts? I have seen this issue cause confusion for a customer at least
one time before.

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Kevin Grigorenko
IBM App Platform SWAT