JMAP
Section: JDK Commands (1)
Updated: 2021
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NAME
jmap - print details of a specified process
SYNOPSIS
Note: This command is experimental and unsupported.
jmap [options] pid
- options
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This represents the jmap command-line options.
See Options for the jmap Command.
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- pid
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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.
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DESCRIPTION
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.
OPTIONS FOR THE JMAP COMMAND
- -clstats pid
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Connects to a running process and prints class loader statistics of Java
heap.
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- -finalizerinfo pid
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Connects to a running process and prints information on objects awaiting
finalization.
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- -histo[:live] pid
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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.
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- -dump:dump_options pid
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Connects to a running process and dumps the Java heap.
The dump_options include:
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live --- When specified, dumps only the live objects; if not
specified, then dumps all objects in the heap.
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format=b --- Dumps the Java heap in hprof binary
format
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file=filename --- Dumps the heap to
filename
Example: jmap -dump:live,format=b,file=heap.bin pid
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS FOR THE JMAP COMMAND
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