# Taking A Heap Dump With jcmd (Java 7 / 8)

Execute jcmd without any parameters to list all JVM processes, starting with a PID. The command jps also does the job.
Execute: jcmd [PID] GC.heap_dump [PATH] to create a heap dump.
Enjoy the memory leak analysis :-)




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