How to get a heap dump of a Java process on Windows that's not running in a console
- by macgreg
I have a Java application that I run from a console which in turn exec's another Java process. I want to get a thread/heap dump of that child process. On Unix I could do a "kill -3 " but on Windows AFAIK the only way to get a thread dump is Ctrl-Break in the console. But that only gives me the dump of the parent process, not the child. Is there another way to get that heap dump?