Java process memory usage (jcmd vs pmap)

Question

I have a java application running on Java 8 inside a docker container. The process starts a Jetty 9 server and a web application is being deployed. The following JVM options

Answer 1

I was facing similar issue with one of our Apache Spark job where we were submitting our application as a fat jar, After analyzing thread dumps we figured that Hibernate is the culprit, we used to load hibernate classes on startup of the application which was actually using java.util.zip.Inflater.inflateBytes to read hibernate class files , this was overshooting our native resident memory usage by almost 1.5 gb , here is a bug raised in hibernate for this issue https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-10938?attachmentOrder=desc , the patch suggested in the comments worked for us, Hope this helps.