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Using HotSpot Serviceability Agent (SA)
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<h1>Using HotSpot Serviceability Agent (SA)</h1>
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<h3>HSDB GUI</h3>
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The top-level GUI program using the HotSpot Serviceability Agent APIs is
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called <b>HSDB</b>, the "HotSpot Debugger". To run it, type "hsdbproc.sh" 
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or "hsdbwindbg.bat" or 64-bit variants (on Unix, Windows platforms 
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respectively). More info. on HSDB GUI are in <a href="hsdb.html">hsdb.html</a>.
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<h3>SA Modes</h3>
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There are three modes for the SA debugger: 
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<li>attaching to a local process,
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<li>opening a core file, and 
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<li>attaching to a remote "debug server". 
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The remote case requires two programs to be running on the remote machine:
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the rmiregistry (see the script "start-rmiregistry.sh" in this directory;
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run this in the background) and the debug server (see the script
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"start-debug-server-proc.sh"), in that order. start-rmiregistry.sh takes no
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arguments; start-debug-server-proc.sh (or -windbg.bat) takes as argument 
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the process ID or the executable and core file names to allow remote debugging
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of. 
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<h3>Command line HSDB</h3>
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There are also command line HSDB variants ("clhsdbproc.sh" or "clhsdbwindbg.bat"
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or 64-bit variants). There is also a JavaScript based command line interface
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called "jsdbproc.sh" [or "jsdbwindbg.bat" or 64-bit variants]. More details on 
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command line interfaces can be found in 
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<li><a href="clhsdb.html">clhsdb.html</a>
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<li><a href="jsdb.html">jsdb.html</a>
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<h3>Other command line tools</h3>
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The following table lists all SA command line tools. &lt;xxx&gt;windbg.bat 
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files are for Windows. .sh files are for Solaris. &lt;xxx&gt;64.sh are for 
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64 bit debugees.
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dumpflagsproc.sh,
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dumpflagsproc64.sh,
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dumps name and value of all -XX JVM command line arguments passed
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dumpsyspropsproc.sh,
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This prints name and value of Java level System properties.
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Dumps heap in a file in hprof binary format.
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Prints summary information on Java heap.
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This can retrieve .class files from the debuggee.
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set the environment variable <b>JCORE_PACKAGES</b> to comman separated list of
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used to get java stack trace for all java threads.
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used to get object histogram of java heap.
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To gather statistics on perm. generation.
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This is cross platform mixed mode pstack utility. This works on any (non-java as well) process, core dump. For java process and core dumps, this prints both java and C/C++ frames. 
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This is cross platform Solaris pmap-like utility. 
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This is command line SOQL - Simple Object Query Language tool.
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SOQL is SQL-like query language to query Java heap.
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These scripts are used to run SA remotely. 
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<h3>C2 Compilation Replay</h3>
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When a java process crashes in compiled method, usually a core file is saved.
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The C2 replay function can reproduce the compiling process in the core.
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<a href="c2replay.html">c2replay.html</a>
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<h3>Debugging transported core dumps</h3>
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When a core dump is moved from the machine where it was produced to a
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difference machine, it may not always be possible for SA to debug the same.
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More info. on debugging on transported core dumps is in
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<a href="transported_core.html">transported_core.html</a>.
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<h3>SA Bugs</h3>
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Not all of the possible states of target VMs have been tested (or
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supportable) with SA. For example, the SA will probably not work at all 
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if it freezes the target VM during certain phases of GC. When filing bugs
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a pointer to a core file (see gcore(1)) which the SA can not handle well 
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is best.
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