Visualize Garbage Collection
By Pete Freitag
Sun has released (for free) a very cool program called Visual GC 2.0
in their jvmstat toolkit (via: Moazam Raja). The tool will show you graphically how memory is organized into generation in your JVM. This is very handy for tuning garbage collection parameters because you can see how your application uses the JVM's different generations.
For instance if we wanted to visualize garbage collection on a ColdFusion MX application server (note JVM 1.4.2 is required MX 6.1 includes uses version), the first thing we need to know is the process ID of the JVM. This can be found with the utility that comes with jvmstat called jvmps
C:\bin\jvmstat\bat>jvmps 3096 3416 jvmps.jar
From my testing you need to be running as the same user that created the JVM. So if your running ColdFusion MX as a service on Windows it is probable that the JVM is running under the SYSTEM
account. To get around this run C:\CFusionMX\bin\cfstop.bat
and then C:\CFusionMX\bin\cfstart.bat
this will start CFMX as the user that your logged in as. If your on unix you can just su
or sudo
using the user CFMX is running as.
Next you just launch the visualgc
program:
C:\bin\jvmstat\bat>visualgc 3096
And here's what the output might look like:
Visualize Garbage Collection was first published on June 08, 2004.
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You can use : -m and -l options for informations about used options of the JMV running processes listed by jps.