Java loop breaking at runtime

Question

My program seems to go into some infinite loop, but isn't giving any heap error or anything. Still I would like to know where the loop is.

I am using Eclipse and running in normal mode (not in debug mode). Also my program is nondeterministic, so I can't run it again to recreate the infinite loop.

Is there a way to find the infinite loop?

Answer 1

I guess You could run your application under profiler VisualVM It's help you to find your infinity loop (analize iterations, process loading and so on parameters)

Answer 2

One way is to wait until the infinite loop shows up, then use jstack -l <pid> to get a stack dump, and analyze that.

With a modicum of luck, this should suggest some lines of further inquiry.