JEP 240: Remove the JVM TI hprof Agent

[Florian Weimer]

On 02/16/2015 04:23 PM, Mario Torre wrote:
> Thermostat does support that natively with the CLI interface. Also I
> believe Visual VM can deal with saved and exported hprof dumps,
> likewise MAT (and Thermostat), which is probably the most advanced at
> this stage - so no need to install software really.

I believe you are talking about heap dumps here.  As far as I understand
it, traces from profiling will be gone completely if the hprof agent is
removed, so there won't be any data you can analyze externally.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security