Category Archives: DTrace

DTrace;ing the JVM, useful tips

I am using DTrace from time to time and it is really nice, you can do a lot with it.

This page is mostly a reminder to myself cause there are tons of pages out there if you google it, but I figured that why not share the knowledge 🙂

List all Probes available in a process

 List all probes that has to do with the JAVA JVM Hotspot

dtrace -l | grep hotspot

Figure out WHO initiated the Garbage Collection (GC)

dtrace -n ‘hotspot$target:::gc-begin { jstack(); }’ -p 25736

JVM Probes

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/vm/dtrace.html

Figure out what objects are being allocated using DTrace

http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2007/10/31/using-the-dtrace-hotspot-provider-to-observe-java-object-allocations/

JVM: Unable to open door

The jinfo command needs to be run by the user the JVM runs as.