• User signal i.e. SIGQUIT ("kill -3") / SIGBREAK
• User signal 2 i.e. SIGUSR2 (non-Windows only)
• General Protection Fault (GPF) or unexpected SIGSEGV
• Process abort i.e. SIGABRT
• Internal JVM error (assertion failure)
• Corrupt shared classes cache
• Excessive GC activity
• Global GC
• VM startup
• VM shutdown. Exit code:
• Thread started
• Thread stopped
• Thread blocked
• Thread slow/hung. Unresponsive threshold in ms:

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• Object allocated
  

  Minimum size:	bytes kilobytes megabytes
  Maximum size:	bytes kilobytes megabytes

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• Exception thrown by Java code
• Exception thrown by JVM internals
• Exception caught
• Exception uncaught

  Exception class name:
  Method name / offset:
  Exception message:

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• Class loaded
• Class unloaded
  Class name:

• Write current Java™ thread stack to stderr
• Write all Java thread stacks to stderr
• Generate a system dump (core file / SYSTDUMP)
• Generate a Java dump (Java core)
• Generate a PHD heap dump (system dump is usually preferred)
• Generate a Snap dump (contents of the JVM's trace buffers)
• Generate a JIT dump
• Generate an LE CEEDUMP dump (z/OS only)
• Shutdown the JVM
• Run a shell command:
  
    Asyncronous
    Wait:

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Obtain exclusive JVM access before dumping
Run global GC before dumping (i.e. remove garbage objects)
Ensure heap is walkable before dumping
Suspend other dumps while dumping
Enable native thread stacks in javacore

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• First / last events:   (0 = no limit)

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• Dump priority: (0 [lowest] - 999 [highest])

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• Dump file pattern (all dumps except SYSTDUMPs and CEEDUMPs):
• Data set pattern (SYSTDUMPs only):

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