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JPS and VisualVM on Windows

Posted by: Matthew McCullough on 10/04/2009

At several stops on the NFJS tour, I’ve been asked about some of the minor issues in running JPS and VisualVM on the Windows platform. The primary problem is that the processes in JPS and VisualVM are listed as:

<Unknown Application> (pid ###)

I have been successful in working around this by renaming the hsperfdata temp directory as noted in a separate thread on the Sun forums.

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About Matthew McCullough

Matthew McCullough is an energetic 15 year veteran of enterprise software development, open source education, and co-founder of Ambient Ideas, LLC, a Denver consultancy. Matthew currently is a trainer for GitHub.com, author of the Git Master Class series for O'Reilly, speaker at over 30 national and international conferences, author of three of the top 10 DZone RefCards, and President of the Denver Open Source Users Group. His current topics of research center around project automation: build tools (Maven, Leiningen, Gradle), distributed version control (Git), Continuous Integration (Hudson) and Quality Metrics (Sonar). Matthew resides in Denver, Colorado with his beautiful wife and two young daughters, who are active in nearly every outdoor activity Colorado has to offer.

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