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title: 'JMAP(1) JDK @@VERSION_SHORT@@ | JDK Commands'
date: @@COPYRIGHT_YEAR@@
lang: en
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## Name

jmap - print details of a specified process

## Synopsis

**Note:** This command is experimental and unsupported.

`jmap` \[*options*\] *pid*

*options*
:   This represents the `jmap` command-line options. See [Options for the jmap
    Command].

*pid*
:   The process ID for which the information specified by the *options* is to
    be printed. The process must be a Java process. To get a list of Java
    processes running on a machine, use either the `ps` command or, if the JVM
    processes are not running in a separate docker instance, the
    [jps](jps.html) command.

## Description

The `jmap` command prints details of a specified running process.

**Note:**

This command is unsupported and might not be available in future releases of
the JDK. On Windows Systems where the `dbgeng.dll` file isn't present, the
Debugging Tools for Windows must be installed to make these tools work. The
`PATH` environment variable should contain the location of the `jvm.dll` file
that's used by the target process or the location from which the core dump file
was produced.

If the target JVM is started with an alternate temporary file location, `jmap` must
use the same temporary file location for communication; this is true by default
but see the [`-XX:AltTempDir`](./java.html#-XX_AltTempDir) option.


## Options for the jmap Command

[`-clstats`]{#option-clstats} *pid*
:   Connects to a running process and prints class loader statistics of Java
    heap.

[`-finalizerinfo`]{#option-finalizerinfo} *pid*
:   Connects to a running process and prints information on objects awaiting
    finalization.

[`-histo`]{#option-histo}\[`:live`\] *pid*
:   Connects to a running process and prints a histogram of the Java object
    heap. If the `live` suboption is specified, it then counts only live
    objects.

[`-dump:`]{#option-dump_}*dump\_options* *pid*
:   Connects to a running process and dumps the Java heap. The *dump\_options*
    include:

    -   `live` --- When specified, dumps only the live objects; if not
        specified, then dumps all objects in the heap.

    -   `format=b` --- Dumps the Java heap in `hprof` binary format

    -   `file=`*filename* --- Dumps the heap to *filename*

    Example: `jmap -dump:live,format=b,file=heap.bin` *pid*
