What is retained size for an object on heapdump?

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I've recently increase my use of the Profiler in Netbeans (6.7), this is a great tool.

I have a question however. When taking a heap dump, on the summary page (expect window) it is possible to 'find the biggest objects by retained size'.

What is this value and how is it used to analyze memory usage?

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