Linux System Call Analysis
July 27, 2024
Building up a picture of system call activity can be a useful activity to breakdown the response time of an application and provide insight into…
JVM Symbol Table for Linux Perf
June 19, 2024
CPU profiling with Linux perf can help identify functions for investigation. To be able to translate memory addresses into readable function and variable names Linux…
Installing JFR on a live container
April 21, 2024
There may be times when you encounter a JVM running in a container that is not monitored or exposed via JMX, and is not attachable…
Workload Simulation Tools
October 23, 2023
Selecting a tool for workload simulation can depend on a number of things, including, but not limited to, the features it provides, the system to…
Faster heap dumps with GDB
August 3, 2022
Using jmap to create a heap dump directly on a JVM can create significant pause times if the heap is large. This may not be…