ITworld.com – If once every several years, you have problems with a process and end up with a troublesome core dump, you might be able to extract some useful information from the file before you ...

In previous blog posts, I have covered using VisualVM to acquire HotSpot JVM runtime information in a manner similar to jinfo and how to use VisualVM in conjunction with JMX and MBeans in a manner ...

While mdb can be used to interact with the live kernel or probe into core dumps in complex and intimidating ways, it’s also not very hard to get some basic and very useful information from a core dump ...