Which profiler is better for general purpose profiling and heap analysis? 90% of our apps are standalone command line programs with substantial database and numeric processing. The other 10% are webapps/servlet container apps (with very little JSP and NO SCRIPLETS!). Target user would be Sr Software Engineer with 5-10 years of industry e...
I have been using Yourkit 8.0 to profile a mathematically-intensive application running under Mac OS X (10.5.7, Apple JDK 1.6.0_06-b06-57), and have noticed some strange behavior in the CPU profiling results. For instance - I did a profiling run using sampling, which reported that 40% of the application's 10-minute runtime was spent in ...
I have out of memory issues with following environment: Tomcat 5.1.23 Using XFire WebServices Framework JDK 1.5 Used YourKit to profile it and found out multiple instances of class org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadWithAttributes has huge ArrayList object (Stack Local) with java.lang.Object array containing duplicate string. Follow...
I've build a command-line tool in Java, which I would now like to profile with YourKit. I launch the command-line tool with something like: $ java -classpath .:foo.bar.jar com.foobar.tools.TheTool arg1 arg2 arg3 It runs to completion in less than 2 seconds. After reading http://www.yourkit.com/docs/80/help/agent.jsp, I tried the fol...
Hi, I have a C++ code that upon execution: Loads JVM (I have full control on how to load the JVM), and call Java methods (from loaded classes) using C JNI code. The Java code has no Main() and it is actually not a standard Java application. it is mainly a static code that compiled and compacted into Jar file, the code is being called by ...
I am trying to reduce the lock contention on a particular code-path in my application. To identify code with high lock contention, I connect YourKit to my application and use the "Monitor" tab and see acquiring which locks have caused the thread I care about to block. My eventual aim is to have no red dots for this thread in the "Thread"...
I would like to gather amount of time my application is waiting for I/O. I am running this java application on ubuntu/linux. I am using yourkit profiler. Suggest if there any other profiling tool for measuring I/O time. ...
I have recently downloaded a trial version of YourKit and after playing with it for a while it looks great, but I am concerned about running it in the production environment. Previous profilers I have used have put unacceptable overhead on the servers. Does anyone know the typical overhead of the YourKit software? Or has anyone had any ...