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Generating Thread Dumps from a Sun or IBM JVM Running As A Windows Service

  • Debugging
  • JVM Internals
  • Linux

I was recently asked if there was a way to generate a Thread Dump from a JVM running as a Windows Service. It occured to me that I had a similar issue during my Masters Project when I was trying to generate a thread dump from a Cygwin xterm; Googling at the time turned up no good way of accomplishing the task. But, I knew that you could use the Java Debugger that ships with the Sun JDK, jdb, to generate a thread dump of all non-System Threads in a JVM. I posed this as a solution to generating Thread Dumps from a JVM running as a Windows Service.

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The First 1500 Hamming Numbers

  • JVM Internals
  • Mathematics
  • Memory Management

I haven’t had a chance to post anything here since the beginning of last semester. I’m in a class at the moment where all of the programming assignments involves annoying little math algorithms. The most recent required us to generate the first N hamming numbers using an efficient algorithm that…

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