How do I increase the /proc/pid/cmdline 4096 byte limit?

linux process classpath pid limits
user27635 picture user27635 · Oct 13, 2008 · Viewed 18.7k times · Source

For my Java apps with very long classpaths, I cannot see the main class specified near the end of the arg list when using ps. I think this stems from my Ubuntu system's size limit on /proc/pid/cmdline. How can I increase this limit?

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Kevin Cross picture Kevin Cross · Sep 8, 2010

For looking at Java processes jps is very useful.

This will give you the main class and jvm args:

jps -vl | grep <pid>

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