Well I would rather recommand the use of Memory Analyzer (MAT for short) with a Sun JDK.
see
http://www.eclipse.org/mat/
This tool is several magnitude more useful for memory problems analysis than jhat would ever be.
jhat is just a low level tool that displays references and allows some browsing.
Give MAT a try and you will understand what I mean.
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