Iced Tea in Crete 2012:Building custom profiles

Building custom profiles
Convenor: Kirk
Participants: List them here Thomas
Summary: Kirk Pepperdine explained some benefits of writing custom profilers to be able to extract the most relevant information out of the profiler with minimal impact on the system. Kirk demonstrated a "conditional thread dumper" as an example for such an custom profiler. Thomas Darimont demonstrated the Hotspot Debugger (HSDB) which ships with the latest Versions of JDK 6 / JDK 7.
Recommendations: Recommendations go here ... ... Read the article HotSpot's Hidden Treasure - Java Magazine Tools which leverage the features of the HotSpots Serviceability Agent - like Hotspot Debugger HSDB (July/August 2012) http://www.oraclejavamagazine-digital.com/javamagazine/20120708?pg=41#pg41 Play with the code examples of "Mit Debugger interne HotSpot JVM Informationen auslesen in Java 7" - Article in German -> Examples are in english (Tutorials.de - March 2012) http://www.tutorials.de/java/387020-mit-debugger-interne-hotspot-jvm-informationen-auslesen-java-7-a.html For further reading: The HotSpot™ Serviceability Agent: An out-of-process high level debugger for a Java™ virtual machine http://static.usenix.org/events/jvm01/full_papers/russell/russell_html/index.html http://www.javaperformancetuning.com/news/newtips140.shtml
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