Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition

Name

jstack — Display stack traces for a Java process

Synopsis

jstack [ options ] pid                        // local process
jstack [ options ] executable 
                  core            // core file
jstack [ options ] [process-name@]hostname   // remote process

Description

jstack prints stack traces for each of the Java threads running in the specified Java process. jstack can be started in three ways:

• Specify the process id of a Java process running locally to obtain configuration information about it. See jps to list local processes.

• To obtain post-mortem configuration information from a core file, specify the Java executable that produced the core file and the core file itself on the command line.

• To obtain configuration information about a Java process running remotely, specify the name of the remote host, optionally prefixed by a remote process name and @ sign. jsadebugd must be running on the remote host.

In Java 5.0, jstack is experimental, unsupported, and not available on all platforms.

Options

-help, -h

Prints a help message.

-m

Displays stack traces in “mixed mode,” that is, displays both Java and native method stack frames. Without this option, the default is to display Java stack frames only.

See also

jps, jsadebugd