hi guys while i was going through a document of heap dumps i came across the following statement :

"There is a cost associated with producing heap dumps  "  

 how can geaneration of heap dump from an command line be associated with cost?


               Thank you. 

Hi Kasi,

  Maybe have other meaning but "the cost" can be because previous to IBM sdk 1.5 (I'm not sure) the generation of a heap dump "freeze" the process.  Your server stop doing anything until the heap dump terminate.
 
  From version 1.5 you have dedicated threads to generate dumps, so the process is faster and has less impact.
 
  Without the context of the phrase hard to know the meaning.
 
  Hope this helps.
 
regards

thanks Gabriel