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Difference between sampling and profiling in jVisualVM

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VisualVM has two separate tabs for sampling and profiling. What is the difference between sampling and profiling in VisualVM?

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Parag Avatar asked Aug 26 '12 12:08

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Sampling means taking lots of thread dumps and analyzing stack traces. This is usually faster, does not require runtime changes in your bytecode (which may break it), but is also less accurate.

Profiling means instrumenting your classes and methods, so they "report" whenever they are run. This is more accurate, as it counts every invocation of instrumented method, not only those caught when the dump is done. However instrumentation means that the bytecode of your classes is changed, and this may break your program. Actually, for that reason, using profiling on large application servers (like JBoss, or WebLogic) often causes everything to die or hang.

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