The Java Memory Map (JMAP) utility has a method that prints a histogram of the Java heap. One side effect of the jmap command is that when it's called, it forces a garbage collection routine.

Peter Lawrey discusses Unsafe in Java 8, Project Panama in Java 17 and Java 19, including pactical uses with code examples, demo using Panama, Event Sourcing using shared memory with Chronicle Queue.

Want a heap dump? Check out the jmap (Java memory map) and jhat (Java heap analysis tool) shipped with Hotspot-based JVMs (Sun, OpenJDK). Looking for a bit more?

For purposes of this post, I have created two heap dumps on two totally separate applications using the Oracle JDK-provided jmap (Java Memory Map) tool to attach to the processes’s Java PIDs and ...