Shelly Gulati

• Mar 26th, 2012

 

A thread dump is a dump of all live threads at the instant the thread dump is taken. Thus useful for analysing execution problems e.g. thread deadlock.It is used when the server is hung and we want to see the threads executing and take their dump.

A heap dump is a JVM facility that generates the dump of the state of the Java heap memory or live objects. Thus useful for analysing some memory issues.

deepak

• Jul 14th, 2017

 

Thread dump: thread dump is the snapshot of threads, we can use thread dump identify is there any struc threads or blocking threads, or if there are any dead locks heapdump:heap dump is the dump of heap it is based on new ,old generation objects of JVM useful for analysing some memory issues, heapdump used to identify which objects are cause memory leaks

krishna

• Apr 23rd, 2018

 

Heap dump:
It contains all objects information heap memory.
When ever we will get memory related issues that time we need to generate heap dump for finding root cause.

Thread dump or Java core:
It contains all threads information (waiting, run, hung, deadlock threads). Whenever we will get hung, dead lock issues that time we need to generate heap dump for finding root cause.

We will use kill -3 command to generate both dumps in Linux.