I am looking for an easy way to find out how much memory the JVM on my computer has allocated to a specific process, i have tried using VisualVM, but it cannot find the process.
I should mention that this it's running a Windows Service, not a regular process.
Any suggestions ?
Thank in advance.
there is a command that comes with the JRE called jps which you can use to see all the running java processes. using jps with -v gives you the launch parameters of each process.
You can see here the launch parameters which will tell you the memory usage of each process.
This command should run also on Windows, just replace the terminal with a command prompt.
I use in android (if you want to know a programatic way):
// get the total memory for my app
long total = Runtime.getRuntime().totalMemory();
// get the free memory available
long free = Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory();
// some simple arithmetic to see how much i use
long used = total - free;
System.out.println("Used memory in bytes: " + used);
Works for the PC too(just tested)!
JVisualVM should work for you. There are specific cases where the process is not shown in visualVM.
See some known issues
Local Applications Cannot Be Monitored (Error Dialog On Startup) Description: An error dialog saying that local applications cannot be monitored is shown immediately after VisualVM startup. Locally running Java applications are displayed as (pid ###). Resolution: This can happen on Windows systems if the username contains capitalized letters. In this case, username is UserName but the jvmstat directory created by JDK is %TMP%\hsperfdata_username. To workaround the problem, exit all Java applications, delete the %TMP%\hsperfdata_username directory and create new%TMP%\hsperfdata_UserName directory.
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I have a problem and my job depend on of that.
There are some java apps with tomcat under Linux that crash ramdonly (the apps are not mine and it can not be modified).
Every day we find in the morning some app broken.
I want to see the java stack just when it crashed the app for seeing the message of the JVM (outofmemory, nullpointer etc). For if i can see an advice for fixing the problem.
I do not know nothing about to do this.
I saw searching in internet visualvm and jconsole for this. Is enough for what i want to do?.
I want to see the messages of the java stack of JVM just when crashes.
I need help. Thank you very much.
looks like you have memory leak issue, does the app works after restart for a particular period of time?
You might want to see what happening inside java heap , for that you can take heap dump.. Use jcmd utility for this , you can find this utility within JDK installed on your server.
jcmd <process id/main class> GC.heap_dump filename=filename
NOTE: This will do a GC every time this runs.
To schedule this you need to set the cronjob.
Alternatively if you specify -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError command-line option while running your application, then when an OutOfMemoryError exception is thrown, the JVM will generate a heap dump(in the logs).
Hope this helps. :)
Lets say I have several JVMs running for several processes like JBoss , MyOwnjavaApplication, Apache etc.
How to find out how many JVM's are running currently on a machine? and How do I get JVM memory usage of particular process ID . Lets say Jboss server process Id is 1234. So I want to know JVM memory usage of a process with process Id 1234.
Use VisualVM to monitor your java applications.
Go to your java installed bin path and execute jvisualvm.exe
In windows i will do like below.
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_24\bin> jvisualvm.exe
Please refer this VisualVM tutorial
Trying to diagnose some bizarre Tomcat (7.0.21) and/or JVM errors on a 64-bit linux (CentOS) machine.
I'm load testing our server application and tried hitting it with 100K messages. Launched jvisualvm and kept my eye on the heap the whole time. Everything was looking great* (see below) until I got to about 93K processed messages and then Tomcat just died. Ran a ps on Tomcat's PID number to confirm it was dead.
Up until this crash:
Load test had been running for about 90 minutes; should have finished shortly thereafter since we were at 93K/100K)
CPU was holding strong around 45%
Used heap was around 2GB (plus or minus a bunch after GCs) but heap size grew from 4GB to MAX_HEAP after about 30 minutes
Class loading/unloading was cycling normally
Thread dumps were normal
Nowhere in the server code are any calls to System.exit() - so we can rule that right out (and yes I've double-checked!!!).
I'm not sure if this is Tomcat crashing or the JVM (how do I tell?). And even if I did know, I can't seem to find any indication of what went wrong:
All of the server app's logs just stop without any ERROR messages (even though we have logging universally set to DEBUG and higher)
Tomcat's catalina.out and respect localhost_access_* files just stop without any info
I've heard it is possible to have Tomcat log a coredump when it does but not sure how to do that and online examples aren't helping much.
How would SO go about diagnosing this? What steps should I take to start ruling out all of the possible factors?
Thanks in advance!
If the JVM crashes, you should have a hs_err_pidNNN.log file; you don't have to do anything to enable this. Its location depends on your OS and how you are running Tomcat. On Windows, they can show up on your desktop, unless you are running as a service. Otherwise, they should be in the current working directory of the crashed process.
Your operating system probably provides additional tools for process monitoring; you could describe your environment more, or perhaps ask at serverfault.com.
It's also possible that jvisualvm is actually causing the crash.
I'd try reproducing the problem, and progressively simplify the scenario to help isolate the cause.
Another possibility is that the OS is running out of memory and the OOM Killer is killing your process. In this case, the JVM wouldn't get an opportunity to write a heap dump, or an hs_err_pid file.
You can use the option java -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError to create a heap dump for jvm crash due to out of memory error.
More details here Using HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError parameter for heap dump for JBoss.
Sorry I had to remove the green check from #erickson. I finally figured out what was killing Tomcat.
It looks like a profiler plugin is not configured correctly with VisualVM and attempting to run a profile on the Tomcat process killed it.
Investigating why right now, and will update this answer once I know more.
When I run PowerShell in a remote session (etsn {servername}), I sometimes can't seem to run Java processes, even the most simple:
[chi-queuing]: PS C:\temp> java -cp .\hello.jar Hello
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap
Hello.jar is an "Hello, world!" application that should just print "Hello" to standard output.
So, the question is, is there something special about running processes on the other side of a PowerShell session? Is there something special about how the Java VM works that might not allow treatment like this? The memory is allocated on the remote computer, right? Here is a readout on the physical memory available:
[chi-queuing]: PS C:\temp> $mem = Get-wmiobject -class Win32_OperatingSystem
[chi-queuing]: PS C:\temp> $mem.FreePhysicalMemory
1013000
But, when I remote desktop to the server and ask the OS how much free memory there is, it says 270 MB physical memory free. Let me know what you think!
According to this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384372(VS.85).aspx
MaxMemoryPerShellMB
Specifies the maximum amount of memory allocated per shell, including the shell's child processes. The default is 150 MB.
Increase Max Memory Per Shell MB
winrm set winrm/config/winrs '#{MaxMemoryPerShellMB="1000"}'
I have a different answer to share with you guys. I found myself in the same situation and increasing memory min/max for Java.exe or using winrm did NOT solve my issue.
I compared two servers: one working and one not working.
I used this link https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff520073%28v=ws.10%29.aspx to check my Windows Management Foundation wich is needed to run WINRS and also remote powershell.
the result: Both servers running Windows Server 2008 R2. One server running WMF 2.0, one running WMF 3.0.
To my surprise, the server running 2.0 was working and the one running 3.0 was NOT!
My solution: I upgraded the 3.0 WMF to 4.0!
Just a fyi: we suffered the same symptoms, and had an endless investigation based on the other two answers.
The actual solution for us was changing jdk1.8.0_31 to jdk1.8.0_51.
I'm trying to run jstack command on my java application. Application is rather big, running inside jboss AS occupying about 4gb of memory. OS is Windows Server 2003 Standard edition. Every time i get an error "Not enough storage is available to process this command". There is enough ram, 16gb, and disk space. So, any ideas?
I ran into this recently on Win2008r2 and thought I'd share my solution since it took a while to figure out. Rob's comment about psexec -s is what did it for me.
It appears that on Vista and later jstack doesn't work against services because of the user context. It has nothing to do with memory. I suspect this is the same reason people have seen this problem on 2003 via remote desktop, unless you use the /admin or /console switch on mstsc. As of Vista the tightened security is probably what broke it.
Starting my app from a cmd window worked fine, but that doesn't help me debug our standard install. Enabling the java debug port (for VisualVM, Eclipse or most any Java debugger) requires an app restart, so you lose the state you're probably trying to capture if you don't already have debugging enabled. Starting the service under my user credentials did not work - I was a little surprised at that. But psexec -s runs jstack from the system context, which worked like a charm. Oh, and you'll need to run psexec from an elevated cmd prompt, if UAC is on.
In the past I have seen this when the JVM is running as a Windows Service on Windows 2003.
First, check to see if this is an issue with the TMP directory.
Second, jstack (or the other utilities like jconsole) will not connect to the local process unless it is running in the same session. If the service is running as a specific user, you may be able to connect by logging into the same session. If you are using Remote Desktop, you can connect using "mstsc /admin" (used to be /console) and try to run jstack again. Definitely check to make sure the TMP directory is set properly if this doesn't fix the problem.
If the service is running as LocalSystem, the above procedure probably will not help much. I don't know if there is a way to log into the same session as LocalSystem.
Some other alternatives may be to set the process up for remote monitoring and use jvisualvm (from the server itself or another machine) to connect over a port and do a thread dump.
We had problems running JStack on a Windows machine with even a modest application (1GB). We ended up doing our stack and heap analysis using Netbeans. This seemed to cope with the parsing of dump files a lot better. YMMV.
Give Netbeans a try for profiling - its very good. Note that VisualVM is a cutdown NB profiler and comes with 6u7.
psexec -s jstack PID >> c:\jstack.log perfectly works on the same machine. For the first time it took some time but again I executed with the redirect to file option, it completed with in few seconds.
This is an error message from the underlying O/S. There's not much you can do in your code to deal with this other than catch the exception which is thrown. Boo to Windows for being so limited.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc978735.aspx