Can't open HPROF file with Eclipse Memory Analyzer

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veronica picture veronica · Dec 14, 2009 · Viewed 10.3k times · Source

Eclipse Memory Analyzer prompts me only with this message: "Invalid HPROF file header".

Stack dump:

    java.io.IOException: Invalid HPROF file header.
    at org.eclipse.mat.hprof.AbstractParser.readVersion(AbstractParser.java:135)
    at org.eclipse.mat.hprof.Pass1Parser.read(Pass1Parser.java:69)
    at org.eclipse.mat.hprof.HprofIndexBuilder.fill(HprofIndexBuilder.java:65)
    at org.eclipse.mat.parser.internal.SnapshotFactoryImpl.parse(SnapshotFactoryImpl.java:184)
    at org.eclipse.mat.parser.internal.SnapshotFactoryImpl.openSnapshot(SnapshotFactoryImpl.java:102)
    at org.eclipse.mat.snapshot.SnapshotFactory.openSnapshot(SnapshotFactory.java:114)
    at org.eclipse.mat.snapshot.SnapshotFactory.openSnapshot(SnapshotFactory.java:94)
    at org.eclipse.mat.ui.snapshot.ParseHeapDumpJob.run(ParseHeapDumpJob.java:54)
    at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55)

The HPROF file was made on a Linux machine.

HAT doesn't work and the IBM HeapAnalyzer is to complicated, but did work.

What can I do to make it work?

Answer

Jason Finns picture Jason Finns · Apr 25, 2011

I had the same issue. Adding the flag "format=b" fixed the issue. Apparently, Memory Analyzer can only read binary files.

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