Benchmarking Plugins?

I am new to plugin development and I'm trying to create some very lightweight plugins that use as little RAM and CPU as possible. Are there ways to easily monitor or benchmark my plugins for efficiency?

 

Your plugins will literally use not even but maybe 2mb, and thats if its storing a lot of data to the ram, you don't need to be worried.

 

If you feel the need, you can record timings for events inside of bukkit for event usage. You can also run a profiler on the server to see how much cpu your plugin is using as a whole.

 

It's not so much that I'm worried, I am just a very technical person and I would love to monitor this sort of thing and analyze it.

How would I go about doing that? Are there any good tutorials available?

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Could try: http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/wip-analysis-of-your-server-jvm-using-visualvm.66536/
Although I'm not sure if it will do individual plugins albeit I've seen it done before some how.

 

That looks very, very promising. Thank you, I will experiment with that.

 

Timings will help you. Use spigot to get more exact information about it. Also, remember that timings are not absolute and depending on machine where minecraft is running