Java : Get heap dump without jmap or without hanging the application

Question

In few circumstance, our application is using around 12 GB of memory. We tried to get the heap dump using jmap utility. Since the application is using some GB of memory it c

Answer 1

To add to Stephen's answers, you can also trigger a heap dump via API for the most common JVM implementations:

• example for the Oracle JVM
• API for the IBM JVM