Wednesday April 26, 2006
As I mentioned in my last blog entry, jinfo tool may be used to turn (a subset of) JVM command line flags dynamically. As examples, I cited turning on/off verbose GC tracing and class loading tracing. jconsole may also be used to turn on verbose GC and verbose class modes.
You can use "Verbose Output" checkbox in "Classes" tab.
This is little tricky! In "MBeans" tab, choose "java.lang"->"Memory" in tree and then you see "Verbose" attribute of Memory MBean. Here, you can change the value to false or true.
HotSpotDiagnosticMXBean can be directly accessed and controlled from jconsole. In "MBeans" tab, choose com.sun.management->HotSpotDiagnoticMXBean in the tree and then choose "operations" menu in right panel. From this right panel, you can invoke getVMOption and setVMOption operations on HotSpotDiagnosticMXBean and thereby explicitly manage any manageable JVM flag. Also, this can be used to dump heap (dumpHeap operation - to which heap dump file name can be passed as an argument)
jinfo can be used to view value of any JVM -XX flag (whether or not that flag is manageable - i.e., dynamically turnable or not).
jinfo -flag <flag-name> <java-pid>
This is particularly useful if you use many of the -XX JVM flags.
