Can Sun JDK generate core/heap dump files when JVM crashes?
With the following JVM options:
-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
-XX:HeapDumpPath="/tmp"
JVM will dump the content of heap to a file in specified directory. Note that this only happens when OutOfMemoryError
is thrown since dump isn't really needed if JVM crashed due to a different reason.
Edit: "Boolean options are turned on with -XX:+ and turned off with -XX:-." docs
You can use -XX:HeapDump
JVM options.