JConsole can't find process

Question

I tried to run JConsole to analyze the memory used by a running process, but JConsole doesn\'t show me processes even though I am absolutely sure that one is running (in additio

Answer 1

This happens when %TMP% value is different for monitored JVM and the monitoring tool (JConsole/JMC/Java Mission Control, maybe even VisualVM). This may be the standard scenario with Cygwin (at least in my case: Cygwin+Babun) Easiest solution is to set value of the TMP environment variable to the default value used by Windows, at least in scope of shell launching the JVM.