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Reputation: 48404

Opening a heap dump in the .heapdump file format

This is probably embarrassingly easy but please bear with me.

I have to analyze a heap dump, and have received files in the .heapdump format, while I expected .hprof files.

The Eclipse memory analyzer refuses to open .heapdump files, and I'm not sure which tool I should use, or which transformation to apply in order to get them to work with mat.

Unfortunately, the results of my searches on the matter so far are polluted with basic tutorials, i.e. "how to open a .heapdump file" gets me results on "how to analyze a heap dump" essentially.

Edit from comments below

I have tried a few suggestions (thanks all), but none of the below worked:

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6089

Answers (1)

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Reputation: 48404

At the cost of making this look self-serving and suspiciously convenient, I am now able to answer my own question.

The .heapdump file format can be opened by an IBM tool called Heap Analyzer, which is publicly available on developerWorks at the time of writing.

Disclaimer

I am employed by IBM at the time of writing.

Upvotes: 4

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