Question

As far as i can tell, you can only profile a running application using VisualVM.

Does anyone know of a way to profile the launch and startup of a java application using VisualVM?

I’m convinced there must be a way, otherwise it would be a major oversight.

Hoping I’ve just misread the documentation.

Thanks, p.

Answer 1

Are you setting up the profiling using the `-Xrunjdwp” command-line option? If so, that option has a “suspend” parameter for just this purpose:

True if the target VM is to be suspended immediately before the main class is loaded; false otherwise.

Example from my own config:

-Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=8000,server=y,suspend=n

I use this with the YourKit profiler, but I think the principle is the same.