| Performing initial analysis/conversion using command line tool [message #3389] |
Tue, 26 August 2008 17:02  |
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I've got some large heap dumps that I cannot load when running EMA on Win32.
It would be nice if I could transfer the dump to a 64 bits *nix server,
run the initial parsing/conversion there, then transfer the index files
that EMA creates back to my local workstation.
Is such a scenario supported already (without using X etc)?
If not, is something like this on the roadmap?
Thanks,
-tt
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| Re: Performing initial analysis/conversion using command line tool [message #3622 is a reply to message #3459] |
Wed, 27 August 2008 12:52  |
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Andreas Buchen wrote:
>> It would be nice if I could transfer the dump to a 64 bits *nix
>> server, run the initial parsing/conversion there, then transfer the
>> index files that EMA creates back to my local workstation.
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> That is supported. Transfer the all <dump_name>*.index files back and
> you should be able to open the Heap dump on your local workstation.
> Analyzing a dump, which is already parsed and indexed, is much less
> memory intensive.
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> To parse the heap dump w/o X, run the equivalent of the following
> windows command:
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> MemoryAnalyzer.exe -application org.eclipse.mat.api.parse <path/to/dump>
What would be the equivalent on a non-Windows platform?
At first I thought I could just add "-jar something.jar", but probably
something more elaborate is required? (I assume the application is
actually a group of OSGI bundles?)
1)
Given some random *nix machine with a 64bit version of Java >=1.5
installed, what parameters (-classpath?) would I need to launch the
indexing tool?
2)
When using the tool in such an "offline" mode, are there some general
rules for the amount of heap required to analyze a snapshot of some
size? For example, how much heap will I need to index a "typical" heap
dump of 8GB?
3)
In general, if I have created the initial index files using a 64 bit
environment, will I then be able to open a snapshot of any given size on
a 32-bit system for analysis?
In other words, will some (huge) snapshots require 64 bit anyway, even
in the presence of already generated index files?
Thanks,
-tt
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| Re: Performing initial analysis/conversion using command line tool [message #3688 is a reply to message #3622] |
Thu, 28 August 2008 03:47 |
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Taras Tielkes wrote:
>> MemoryAnalyzer.exe -application org.eclipse.mat.api.parse <path/to/dump>
> What would be the equivalent on a non-Windows platform?
On my Ubuntu installation, I can run
/MemoryAnalyzer -application org.eclipse.mat.api.parse mydump.hprof
Or, if you want to do this by hand, one could say something like:
java -jar plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.100.v20080509-1800. jar
-application org.eclipse.mat.api.parse mydump.hprof
Make sure to pick the right version number of the launcher JAR.
> (I assume the application is actually a group of OSGI bundles?)
Yes. It should behave just like an Eclipse IDE.
> 2)
> When using the tool in such an "offline" mode, are there some general
> rules for the amount of heap required to analyze a snapshot of some
> size? For example, how much heap will I need to index a "typical" heap
> dump of 8GB?
The answer is... it depends. More specifically, it depends on the number
of objects (not the size of the heap dump) and the layout of the object
graph. That's why it is hard to predict what is possible. As a rule of
thumb, we usually can parse up to 33 million objects on a 32bit machine.
About the 8GB heap dump. If you have few, but big objects (e.g. huge
primitive arrays), the 32bit might be enough. In general, I hope that one
does not need more memory than the size of the heap dump. Sorry for being
so vague.
> 3)
> In general, if I have created the initial index files using a 64 bit
> environment, will I then be able to open a snapshot of any given size on
> a 32-bit system for analysis?
> In other words, will some (huge) snapshots require 64 bit anyway, even
> in the presence of already generated index files?
Again, I don't have exact numbers. Usually, re-opening the dump on a 32bit
machine is not a problem. Of course, more memory speeds up a lot of
operations (calculating retained sizes etc.), but it should be possible to
analyze the dump on 32bit.
Andreas.
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