Jmap can't connect to make a dump

Question

We have an open beta of an app which occasionally causes the heapspace to overflow. The JVM reacts by going on a permanent vacation.

To analyze this I would like to

Answer 1

Not sure why a plain "jmap " fails when I docker exec -it into my container running centos7 systemd and a java service, but below jmap options worked for me. Thanks: https://dkbalachandar.wordpress.com/2016/07/05/thread-dump-from-a-docker-container/

[root@b29924306cfe /]# jmap 170 Attaching to process ID 170, please wait... Error attaching to process: sun.jvm.hotspot.debugger.DebuggerException: Can't attach to the process: ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, ..) failed for 170: Operation not permitted sun.jvm.hotspot.debugger.DebuggerException: sun.jvm.hotspot.debugger.DebuggerException: Can't attach to the process: ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, ..) failed for 170: Operation not permitted

[root@b29924306cfe /]# jmap -dump:live,format=b,file=heapDump.hprof 170 Dumping heap to /heapDump.hprof ... Heap dump file created