Enabling the DTrace hotspot provider after the JVM starts

While debugging a JVM performance issue a while back, I encountered the following error when I enabled the DTrace hotspot provider:

$ jinfo -flag +ExtendedDTraceProbespgrep java``

590: Unable to open door: target process not responding or HotSpot VM not loaded

After a bit of debugging, I figured out that the jinfo command needs to be run by the user the JVM runs as. Hopefully this will help others who encounter this annoying problem.

This article was posted by Matty on 2007-10-18 00:40:00 -0400 -0400