Viewing hprof From Android With JVisualVM

1. add an additional permission to your app
   

   <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.write_external_storage” />

   to your manifest
   
2. create hprof
   

   protected void ondestroy() {
   super.ondestroy();
   try {
   debug.dumphprofdata(“/sdcard/data.hprof”);
   } catch (exception e) {
   log.e(“xy”, “couldn’t dump hprof”);
   }
   }

   or alternatively create a hprof file with:
   

   adb shell ps | grep yourpackage; adb shell kill -10 pid

3. get the hprof file
   
   android-sdk-linux_x86/platform-tools/adb pull /sdcard/data.hprof /tmp/
   
4. convert the hprof to sun standard format
   

   android-sdk-linux_x86/tools/hprof-conv /tmp/search.hprof /tmp/search.st.hprof

5. open hprof with /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/bin/jvisualvm
   file -> load -> head dumps (hprof)

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