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What is Create dump file on out of memory error: -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError?

What is Create dump file on out of memory error: -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError? Have you used this JVM argument before? What are the pros & cons of using this Java argument? Can you share your perspective/experience in using this JVM argument?

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Pavel Khodakovsky

Usage:

 

-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError

 

Description:

 

For a large-scale enterprise application, it is very common to consume bigger amount of memory on the server. If the server characteristics were chosen incorrectly, or workload increased and there is no enough memory it is common scenario to face an out of memory error, which will result in an application crash. It’s a critical scenario, which might be hard to replicate and fix. In order to help in this situation JVM comes with a bunch of helpful parameters, one of which is HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError. What it does is that instructs the JVM to dump heap into physical file in case of OutOfMemoryError.

 

The heap dump is in HPROF binary format, and so it can be analyzed using any tools that can import this format. For example, the jhat tool can be used to do rudimentary analysis of the dump. By default the heap dump is created in a file called java_pid pid .hprof in the working directory of the VM

 

Default Value:

 

By default it is disabled.

 

Errors:

 

None

 

Arguments related:

 

TODO link HeapDumpPath, OnOutOfMemoryError

 

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