VisualVM: Lightweight JVM profiling tool
Holy crap! I was just perusing the bin directory of my JDK installation and stumbled on a tool called VisualVM. It is a free lightweight profiling tool for the JVM. I can easily find which Java process maps to a specific Java application. Better yet the tool tells me what the PIDs are so that I can easily terminate “rogue” Java processes. VisualVM also provides visualisation tools for monitoring Java Classes, Threads, PermGen, and the Heap. It saves me from having to buy JProfiler or setting up Netbeans to profile my Java applications.
