Exception when taking a heapdump using JMAP

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Priyanka picture Priyanka · Nov 21, 2013 · Viewed 10.4k times · Source

I get the following exception when i take a heapdump using

jmap -F -dump:format=b,file=/tmp/heapdump/before.hprof 10737

Attaching to process ID 10737, please wait...
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at sun.tools.jmap.JMap.runTool(JMap.java:179)
    at sun.tools.jmap.JMap.main(JMap.java:110)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: Type "nmethodBucket*", referenced in VMStructs::localHotSpotVMStructs in the remote VM, was not present in the remote VMStructs::localHotSpotVMTypes table (should have been caught in the debug build of that VM). Can not continue.
    at sun.jvm.hotspot.HotSpotTypeDataBase.lookupOrFail(HotSpotTypeDataBase.java:361)
    at sun.jvm.hotspot.HotSpotTypeDataBase.readVMStructs(HotSpotTypeDataBase.java:252)
    at sun.jvm.hotspot.HotSpotTypeDataBase.<init>(HotSpotTypeDataBase.java:87)
    at sun.jvm.hotspot.bugspot.BugSpotAgent.setupVM(BugSpotAgent.java:568)
    at sun.jvm.hotspot.bugspot.BugSpotAgent.go(BugSpotAgent.java:494)
    at sun.jvm.hotspot.bugspot.BugSpotAgent.attach(BugSpotAgent.java:332)
    at sun.jvm.hotspot.tools.Tool.start(Tool.java:163)
    at sun.jvm.hotspot.tools.HeapDumper.main(HeapDumper.java:77)

Anyone know how to resolve this ?

Answer

nclord picture nclord · Dec 2, 2013

I was seeing the same error because my path to jmap wasn't the same as the path to the java process (i.e. targeting two different versions).

Running jmap with the full path to my JDK resolved it.

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