Enabling text formatted ("classic") Heapdumps

The generated Heapdump is by default in the binary, platform-independent, PHD format, which can be examined using the available tooling.

For more information, see Available tools for processing Heapdumps. However, an immediately readable view of the heap is sometimes useful. You can obtain this view by using the opts= suboption with -Xdump:heap (see Using dump agents). For example:
You can also define one of the following environment variables:


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