jmap - print details of a specified process
Note: This command is experimental and unsupported.
jmap [options] pid
- options
- This represents the jmap command-line options. See Options for the jmap
Command.
- pid
- The process ID for which the information specified by the options
is to be printed. The process must be a Java process. To get a list of
Java processes running on a machine, use either the ps command or, if the
JVM processes are not running in a separate docker instance, the
jps command.
The jmap command prints details of a specified running
process.
Note:
This command is unsupported and might not be available in future
releases of the JDK. On Windows Systems where the dbgeng.dll file isn't
present, the Debugging Tools for Windows must be installed to make these
tools work. The PATH environment variable should contain the location of the
jvm.dll file that's used by the target process or the location from which
the core dump file was produced.
- -clstats pid
- Connects to a running process and prints class loader statistics of Java
heap.
- -finalizerinfo pid
- Connects to a running process and prints information on objects awaiting
finalization.
- -histo[:live] pid
- Connects to a running process and prints a histogram of the Java object
heap. If the live suboption is specified, it then counts only live
objects.
- -dump:dump_options pid
- Connects to a running process and dumps the Java heap. The
dump_options include:
- •
- live --- When specified, dumps only the live objects; if not specified,
then dumps all objects in the heap.
- •
- format=b --- Dumps the Java heap in hprof binary format
- •
- file=filename --- Dumps the heap to filename
Example: jmap -dump:live,format=b,file=heap.bin pid