How to check heap size for a process on Linux

Question

I was writing some code and it kept crashing. Later after digging the dumps I realized I was overshooting the maximum heap limit (life would have been easier if I had added

Answer 1

You can find the process id of your webapp/java process from top. Use jmap heap - to get the heap allocation. I tested this on AWS-Ec2 for elastic beanstalk and it gives the heap allocated. Here is the detailed answer Xmx settings in elasticbean stalk through environment properties