Usage:
-XX:HeapDumpPath=file-path
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 HeapDumpPath, which is used in conjunction with HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError. What it does is that instructs the JVM to dump heap into physical file with specified location 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 HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError, OnOutOfMemoryError
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