Java Process Monitor

Burnsy2023 · 11 Jan 2012 at 12:13

Are there any utilities like Process Monitor/Explorer that will allow me to more closely see what a java application is doing? I'd like to see how much space is allocated for heap/stack, how much is going to be garbage collected etc. I'd like to see if a application is memory leaking or not and where the ram is going.

LizardKing · 11 Jan 2012 at 12:27

Jconsole - its park of the JDK

Edit - Ive used Jrockit mission control in the past to as its a bit more comprehensive than jconsole, pretty sure it worked with the Sun's JRE

Burnsy2023 · 11 Jan 2012 at 12:44

Is there anyway to use this without installing the JDK? Its on a production system, so I don't really want to be installing anything I don't absolutely have to.

LizardKing · 11 Jan 2012 at 12:57

You can install it on any machine and remotely monitor the Java process (this is the advisable way of using it

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As long as the machine has the relevant ports open and right permissions.

Not tried it for a while but pretty sure the JDK doesnt need installing either, you just need to set up a variable for java_home that points to the extracted dir

Burnsy2023 · 11 Jan 2012 at 13:08

LizardKing said:
As long as the machine has the relevant ports open and right permissions.

Do you have a guide to what the right ports and permissions are?

Edit: Ignore, found a guide