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HProfviz

HProfviz turns HProf's CPU sampling output into a graph in the DOT language in a manner similar to gperftools.

Installation

You'll need Go installed.

$ go get github.com/cespare/hprofviz

You can run hprofviz -h to see how to invoke the tool.

Usage

See the information on the HProf homepage. I recommend running with the stack depth turned high, so that you capture complete stacks.

Here's an example of how you might run your application:

$ java -agentlib:hprof=cpu=samples,interval=50,depth=150 -jar app.jar

Next, feed the dump into HProfViz:

$ hprofviz java.hprof.txt hprof.dot

The second filename is the name of the DOT output file. You need Graphviz or another tool installed to render the graph.

$ dot -Tpng hprof.dot > hprof.png

Notes

The graph can get busy if you have a large number of different samples or very complex code. I recommend reading the top methods list at the end of the hprof output file (look for "CPU SAMPLES BEGIN") to gain a better understanding of what the most expensive method calls are. Then you can use the hprofviz flags to limit your view:

$ hprofviz -topk 3 java.hprof.txt hprof.dot

This restricts the dataset to only include stack traces where the top 3 most expensive methods were being called.

$ hprofviz -regez 'Foo' java.hprof.txt hprof.dot

This restricts the dataset to only include stack traces where the method being called matches /Foo/.

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