YourKit Manually Configure Target JVM for Remote Profiling

External

• https://www.yourkit.com/docs/java/help/agent.jsp

Internal

• YourKit Operations
• YourKit Concepts

Overview

Start the JVM with the following configuration:

java ... -agentpath:<profiler-agent-path>[=options] ...

Linux example

java ... -agentpath:<profiler-directory>/bin/linux-x86-64/libyjpagent.so

To check that Java can load the profiler agent, run:

java -agentpath:<profiler-agent-path>=help

Options

Example:

java ... -agentpath:<profiler-agent-path>=port=8080,alloceach=10,allocsizelimit=4096 ...

Startup options:

https://www.yourkit.com/docs/java/help/startup_options.jsp

port

The port the profiler agent listens on for communication with the profiler UI. By default, the port is chosen automatically, starting with 10001. The first port free in the 10001..10010 range is used.