Track native memory usage from Java?

Question

Is there any way I can log native memory usage from Java, i.e., either native memory directly or the total memory the process is using (e.g., ask the OS)?

I'd like to run this on user's machines behind the scenes, so the NativeMemoryTracking command line tool isn't really the most appealing option. I already log free/max/total heap sizes.

Background: A user of my software reported an exception (below) and I have no idea why. My program does use SWIG'd native code, but it's a simple API, I don't think it has a memory leak, and wasn't on the stacktrace (or run immediately before the error). My log indicated there was plenty of heap space available when the error occurred. So I'm really at a loss for how to track this down.

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: null
    at java.io.RandomAccessFile.writeBytes0(Native Method) ~[na:1.7.0_45]
    at java.io.RandomAccessFile.writeBytes(Unknown Source) ~[na:1.7.0_45]
    at java.io.RandomAccessFile.write(Unknown Source) ~[na:1.7.0_45]

The error occurred on Windows (7 or 10)(?) from within webstart, configured with these parameters:

<java href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se" initial-heap-size="768m" java-vm-args="" max-heap-size="900m" version="1.7+"/>

Answer 1

If you want tp track down the JVM memory on your certain method or lines of code you can use the Runtime API.

    Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
    NumberFormat format = NumberFormat.getInstance();

    long maxMemory = runtime.maxMemory();
    long allocatedMemory = runtime.totalMemory();
    long freeMemory = runtime.freeMemory();

System.out.println("free memory: " + format.format(freeMemory / 1024));
System.out.println("allocated memory: " + format.format(allocatedMemory / 1024));
System.out.println("max memory: " + format.format(maxMemory / 1024));
System.out.println("total free memory: " + format.format((freeMemory + (maxMemory - allocatedMemory)) / 1024));