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Thursday, July 18, 2013

How to take Thread Dump,Heap Dump in UNIX


Thread and Heap dumps ,we can use a single command to generate both of these.
But keep remember that generating a heap dump will hang the process you are applying on,till the required file got generated.

You have to set the below statement  at JVM during its start up.

-Xdump:java+heap+system+snap:events=user 


Command to generate dump : kill -3 <PID>  / kill -QUIT <PID>



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