TS-6000 : Improving Application Performance with Monitoring and Profiling Tools

Last year I made a change that I really enjoyed: I did not
blog during JavaOne. The event alone is enough of an exercise
in endurance, so I decided to drop the blogging in favor
of additional sleep. :-)

I did a
technical session
this year with Jaroslav Bachorík (who sometimes blogs
here). Our goal was
to do an overview of some of the tools available for tracking down
performance and memory problems in Java applications. So the talk was
broad, not deep - we covered 12 different tools and did demos of 3
of those.

It seemed to be well received, based on initial reviews. The room holds
about 800 and was packed,
so we did the session a second time late on Friday afternoon (not as large
a crowd the second time, of course).

The slides are available
here.
There are several links to online resources, which I have reproduced
below.

• Java SE Performance White Paper -
  a great starting point.




• Troubleshooting Guide for Java SE 6 with HotSpot VM - provides useful
  tips




• DTrace portal - contains links to several resources




• An article on
  using DTrace with Java applications,
  by Jarod Jenson.




• An article on
  using the Sun Studio Collector/Analyzer on Java applications,
  by Marty Itzkowitz.




• An interesting article by Nasser Nouri on
  using DTrace in conjunction with the Sun Studio Collector/Analyzer.




• The project page for BTrace.




• The project page for GChisto.




• Part 1
  and part 2
  of an article I wrote with
  Sundar and
  Frank Kieviet
  on dealing with different types of memory leaks in Java applications.




• Features
  in the NetBeans profiling tools, and the project page.




• The Hands On
  Lab on the NetBeans profiling tools
  that I taught with Maria Davydova is now available for download
  here.




• The project page for VisualVM.