How do I access memory usage programmatically via JMX?

Question

I\'m looking for sample Java JMX code to access the values of JMX attributes from another VM.

With JConsole, I have no problem looking at java.lang/Memory/Attributes

Answer 1

// Retrieve memory managed bean from management factory.
MemoryMXBean memBean = ManagementFactory.getMemoryMXBean() ;
MemoryUsage heap = memBean.getHeapMemoryUsage();
MemoryUsage nonHeap = memBean.getNonHeapMemoryUsage();

// Retrieve the four values stored within MemoryUsage:
// init: Amount of memory in bytes that the JVM initially requests from the OS.
// used: Amount of memory used.
// committed: Amount of memory that is committed for the JVM to use.
// max: Maximum amount of memory that can be used for memory management.
System.err.println(String.format("Heap: Init: %d, Used: %d, Committed: %d, Max.: %d",
  heap.getInit(), heap.getUsed(), heap.getCommitted(), heap.getMax()));
System.err.println(String.format("Non-Heap: Init: %d, Used: %d, Committed: %d, Max.: %d",
  nonHeap.getInit(), nonHeap.getUsed(), nonHeap.getCommitted(), nonHeap.getMax()));