Is there a way to get the current PermGen and Heap size from the command line in JBoss EAP 6 ?

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Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform(EAP)
    • 6.x

Issue

  • Is there a way to get the current PermGen and Heap size from the command line in JBoss EAP 6?
  • How to get the size of the heap for monitoring purpose ?

Resolution

  • Use below CLI command to check the memory usage in JBoss EAP 6:
    For Standalone mode:
/core-service=platform-mbean/type=memory:read-resource(include-runtime=true)

For Domain mode:

/host=$HOST_NAME/server=$SERVER_NAME/core-service=platform-mbean/type=memory:read-resource(include-runtime=true)
  • This CLI command will show memory use for heap-memory and non-heap-memory.PermGen is considered as non-heap-memory.

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