Fortunately there is a script that comes with mat to parse the the heap dump and generate html reports without ever having to launch eclipse.
Mat parse dump long.
The agent can write multiple heap dumps into one hprof file.
Mat requires almost as much heap as the dump file itself.
A heap dump is a snapshot of all the objects that are in memory in the jvm at a certain moment.
Eclipse memory analyzer tool mat is by far the best tool to analyze java heap dumps.
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There are situations in which it s necessary to set xmx parameter value above the size of parsed heap dump file.
In this article we ll show different ways to capture a heap dump in java.
Change xmx parameter value to appropriate one.
The parser extension point for parsing the new format the trigger heap dump extension point to enable the user to trigger a heap dump from the vm with mat when mat reads a new heap dump the parse method in the class snapshotfactoryimpl will be called.
Heap dumps are usually stored in binary format hprof files.
By default mat takes the first heap dump.
The snapshot mainly consists.
If you want to read an alternative dump one has to start mat with the system property mat hprof dump nr index.
Memory analyzer 1 2 and earlier has no ui support to decide which heap dump to read.
But parseheapdump script that comes along with mat does the job of parsing and creating indices in a short span of time.
Go to eclipse mat home directory and edit memoryanalyzer ini file.
Launching eclipse and updating the ui is an extra load on the jvm that is already busy analyzing a 30g heap dump.
They are very useful to troubleshoot memory leak problems and optimize memory usage in java applications.
Illegal record length 3 801 619 192 at byte 3 783 934 196 for record type 1 the dump was generated with jmap f dump file on a linux machine running java version 1 6 0 31 java tm se runtime environment build 1 6 0 31 b04.
If you try to open 4gb hprof and get java heap space error you should try to raise xmx above 4gb.
A heap dump is a snapshot of the heap memory of a java process at a given time.
However trying to get the ui to run remotely is very painful.