VisualVM unable to sampler memory

Question

I have a tomcat instance with the JMXRemote parameter configured. The local VisualVM is able to get a sampler on CPU, however, not for Memory. The memory button is grayed out wi

Answer 1

This blog post leads me to believe that the temp directories of JVisualVM and Tomcat need to be the same for memory sampling to work. One of the comments on the post:

the temp directory must be set to the one used by JVisualVM, which can be discovered from the VisualVM system properties tab (java.io.tmpdir). Once I set the CATALINA_TMPDIR directory properly, this worked beautifully.