opening ibm .phd files using visualVM

Question

Can some one please tell me how to open the .phd(IBM Portable heap dump) files in VisualVM ? I have tried with Heap Analyser to open it but I could not locate exactly which object is causing the issue ?

Answer 1

These files can be opened easily using IBM Heap Analyzer. download it from here ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/websphere/appserv/support/tools/HeapAnalyzer/ha456.jar.

For @Lyiju question on the question comment, that's normal, start from the command prompt specifiying the max heap size as below

"<JAVA_PATH>\Java.exe" -Xms256m -Xmx6144m -jar <HEAP_ANALYSER_NAME>.jar