Best way to measure Memory Usage of a Java Program?

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iceburn picture iceburn · Aug 21, 2010 · Viewed 11.1k times · Source

I'm currently using VisualVM, but the problem I'm having is that I can't save the graphs it generates. I need to report some data about its memory usage and running time, though running time is easy to get with System.nanoTime(). I've also tried the NetBeans profiler but it isn't what I want, since I'm not looking for specific parts that would be slowing it down or anything, so that would be overkill. The biggest problem with it is that it eats up too much processing time. Also doesn't let me capture/transfer the data easily, like VisualVM, at least as far as I can tell.

Ideally the best way to go about it would be some method call because then I'd be able to get the information a lot more easily, but anything like VisualVM that actually lets me save the graph is fine. Performance with VisualVM is pretty good too, compared to the NetBeans profiler, though I suppose that's because I wasn't using its profiler.

I'm currently using Ubuntu, but Windows 7 is fine. I'd rather have a program that specializes in doing this though, since the information gotten by programs who don't is likely to include the JVM and other things that would be better left out.

Well, apparently, you can save snapshots of the current session and maximize the window in VisualVM, so you could make the charts bigger, take a snapshot and cut them... But that's kind of a hack. Better suggestions welcome.

Answer

Auxiliary picture Auxiliary · Aug 21, 2010 
Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory();

Runtime.getRuntime().totalMemory();

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