If you want to read an alternative dump one has to start mat with the system property mat hprof dump nr index.
Mat parse dump long.
The snapshot mainly consists.
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 requires almost as much heap as the dump file itself.
However trying to get the ui to run remotely is very painful.
Memory analyzer 1 2 and earlier has no ui support to decide which heap dump to read.
The agent can write multiple heap dumps into one hprof file.
But parseheapdump script that comes along with mat does the job of parsing and creating indices in a short span of time.
They are very useful to troubleshoot memory leak problems and optimize memory usage in java applications.
When parsing a heap dump mat fails with a parsing heap dump has encountered a problem.
Heap dumps are usually stored in binary format hprof files.
All that you have to do is to copy the generated indices and the dump file to your local machine and open it with mat.
Go to eclipse mat home directory and edit memoryanalyzer ini file.
There are situations in which it s necessary to set xmx parameter value above the size of parsed heap dump file.
It handles the reading of a new heap dump new means that no indexes for this heap dump.
By default mat takes the first heap dump.
Eclipse memory analyzer tool mat is by far the best tool to analyze java heap dumps.
In this article we ll show different ways to capture a heap dump in java.
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.
Change xmx parameter value to appropriate one.
Launching eclipse and updating the ui is an extra load on the jvm that is already busy analyzing a 30g heap dump.
A heap dump is a snapshot of the heap memory of a java process at a given time.
If you try to open 4gb hprof and get java heap space error you should try to raise xmx above 4gb.