List/Grid Tag Archives: JVM
How to create a memory leak
This is going to be a rather evil post – something you will be googling when you really wish to make someone’s life a misery. In the world of Java development memory leaks are just ...
HotSpot GC Thread CPU footprint on Linux
The following question will test your knowledge on garbage collection and high CPU troubleshooting for Java applications running on Linux OS. This troubleshooting technique is especially ...
Monitoring Key JVM Characteristics with Groovy, JMX, and RuntimeMXBean
Since J2SE 5, Platform MBeans have been available that allow some key characteristics regarding the JVM to be monitored and (even managed in some cases) via JMX. In addition, many JVM-based ...
OpenJPA: Memory Leak Case Study
This article will provide the complete root cause analysis details and resolution of a Java heap memory leak (Apache OpenJPA leak) affecting an Oracle Weblogic server 10.0 production ...
Hunting down memory leaks: a case study
A week ago I was asked to fix a problematic webapp suffering from memory leaks. How hard can it be, I thought – considering that I have both seen and fixed hundreds of leaks over ...
Analysing a Java Core Dump
In this post, I will show you how you can debug a Java core file to see what caused your JVM to crash. I will be using a core file I generated in my previous post: Generating a Java ...
How aggressive is method inlining in JVM?
Ctrl + Alt + M is used in IntelliJ IDEA to extract method. Ctrl + Alt + M. It’s as simple as selecting a piece of code and hitting this combination. Eclipse also has it. I hate ...
Java 8: From PermGen to Metaspace
As you may be aware, the JDK 8 Early Access is now available for download. This allows Java developers to experiment with some of the new language and runtime features of Java 8. One ...
QOTD: Java Thread vs. Java Heap Space
The following question is quite common and is related to OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread problems during the JVM thread creation process and the JVM thread capacity. ...
Java heap space, native heap and memory problems
Recently, I was discussing with a friend, why the Java process uses more memory than the maximum heap that we set when starting the java process. All java objects that code creates ...
