Is there a remote profiler for Java? (that uses JMX preferably) [closed]

Question

I am trying to pin down a memory leak problem for my standalone Java program that runs on unix. I have the port and params setup such that I can connect to it using JMX with JConsole or VisualVM already.

Those help a little but unfortunately it doesn't tell you where the memory has gone, it only tells you how much memory is used. I'm looking for a more detailed profiler to help me locate the objects that is eating up my memory. Anyone have any ideas? Preferably one that talks on JMX port so I don't have to reconfig the program. Thanks!

Answer 1

If the machine in question have the X11 client libraries installed, AND a reachable ssh server which allows X11 forwarding, AND an X11 server running on your local machine (perhaps http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/) AND you use a Sun Java 6u10 or later, you can ssh (with either -X or -Y) into the Linux box, and run jvisualvm there while showing its GUI-interface on your local machine.

Running on the same machine allows jvisualvm to attach directly to the running Java process instead of doing all kinds of configuration voodoo.