As has been detailed by many helpful sites, one way to analyze memory usage of Android apps is to execute a "kill -10 [PID]" to trigger an HPROF dump. This seems to work on some devices, and the lo...

I start my java code (1.6.0_16 in Vista) with the following params (among others) -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=../logs. I run the code and I can see in the logs there are two OO...

I have been benchmarked my multihreaded program using -agentlib:hprof=cpu=samples and was surprised to find the following line in the results: rank self accum count trace method 1 52.88% 52.88% 8...

What tools are available to view the output of the built-in JVM profiler? For example, I'm starting my JVM with: -agentlib:hprof=cpu=times,thread=y,cutoff=0,format=a,file=someFile.hprof.txt This...

VisualVM crashes when I try to profile our application with it, but if I could load the jmap memory dumps I've done from our application into VisualVM, I could probably get the answers I need witho...