Generating Thread Dump on Sun JDK with Timestamp

Question

I need to generate the Thread dumps on Sun Solaris machine for my application which is using Sun's Java5. I am generating Thread Dump using the following command:

kill -QUIT pid

But the thread dumps generated using this does not log the timestamp when the dump has been taken. This is creating problem if I take multiple thread dumps.

Can you please suggest how to get the timestamp with the thread dumps?

Answer 1

You can use VisualVM utility provided in JDK 6.0. You can connect to your Java5 application using visualvm and can get/compare thread dump, memory dump etc.