Monitoring the OpenJDK from the CLI

Currently I do quite a bit of work in and around the Java virtual machine (JVM), most of the time on Linux. When things go awry and I am trying to establish why, I reach for the Java performance analysis tools. These tools come in two forms, the wonderful GUI known as visualvm, which I use when I am working on my local machine, and the cli tools packaged with the Java Development Kit (JDK), which I use when working remotely....

October 16, 2011 6 min