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I have a production server running with the following flag: –XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
Last night it generated a java-38942.hprof file when our server encountered a heap error. It turns out that the developers of the system knew of the flag but no way to get any useful information from it.
Any ideas?
If you want a fairly advanced tool to do some serious poking around, look at the Memory Analyzer project at Eclipse, contributed to them by SAP.
Some of what you can do is mind-blowingly good for finding memory leaks etc — including running a form of limited SQL (OQL) against the in-memory objects, i.e.
Totally brilliant.