Originally posted by: user6123456

Hopefully I am posting this in the correct place.

I have AIX 5.3 with IBM JAVA SR5, I need to force a heap dump on the JVM.

Using the "kill -3" command will only generate the thread dumps that are needed. What is required to generate a heap dump in .phd format also?
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Originally posted by: orphy

See if this helps.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2359&context=SS6JMN&dc=DB520&uid=swg21259615&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=en&rss=ct2359websphere
Orphy
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