'jmap' - JVM Heap Dump Tool

"jmap" - Memory Map: Prints shared object memory maps or heap memory details of a given JVM process or a Java core file on the local machine or on a remote machine through a debug server. "jmap" supports several functions with these syntaxes:

jmap [ option ] pid
jmap [ option ] executable core
jmap [ option ] [server-id@]remote-hostname-or-IP

<no option>
When no option is used jmap prints shared object mappings.
For each shared object loaded in the target VM, start address,
the size of the mapping, and the full path of the shared object
file are printed. This is similar to the Solaris pmap utility.

-dump:[live,]format=b,file=<filename>
Dumps the Java heap in hprof binary format to filename. The live
suboption is optional. If specified, only the live objects in the
heap are dumped. To browse the heap dump, you can use jhat (Java
Heap Analysis Tool) to read the generated file.

-finalizerinfo
Prints information on objects awaiting finalization.

-heap
Prints a heap summary. GC algorithm used, heap configuration and
generation wise heap usage are printed.

-histo[:live]
Prints a histogram of the heap. For each Java class, number of
objects, memory size in bytes, and fully qualified class names
are printed. VM internal class names are printed with '*' prefix.
If the live suboption is specified, only live objects are counted.

-permstat
Prints class loader wise statistics of permanent generation of
Java heap. For each class loader, its name, liveness, address,
parent class loader, and the number and size of classes it has
loaded are printed. In addition, the number and size of interned
Strings are printed.

-F
Force. Use with jmap -dump or jmap -histo option if the pid does
not respond. The live suboption is not supported in this mode.

But the "jmap" tool included in the Windows version of JDK 1.6 only supports functions to print histogram of Java object heap and generate a heap dump of a given JVM process:

C:\herong>\Progra~1\java\jdk1.6.0_02\bin\jmap

Usage:
jmap -histo <pid>
(to print histogram of java object heap of the JVM process)
jmap -dump:<dump-options> <pid>
(to dump java heap of the JVM process)

dump-options:
format=b binary default
file=<file> dump heap to <file>

Example: jmap -dump:format=b,file=heap.bin <pid>

See the next section on how to use "jmap" to print heap histogram and to generate heap dump.