Is it possible to view threads from hprof dump / threads in heap dump

Question

I have got a large (5GB) hprof dump, created by application when OutOfMemoryError occurred. (Using XX: HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError ).

Unfortunately there

Answer 1

You can kill -3 the process id to get a thread dump to standard out. This will not kill the java process so you can do it as many times as you want.

as RC stated visualVM is a good tool which will give you Object counts by class type and all kinds of graphs and profiling tools.