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Java Virtual Machine can tune itself depending on the environment and this smart tuning is referred to as Ergonomics . When tuning Java , it's important to know which values were used as default for Garbage collector, Heap Sizes, Runtime Compiler by Java Ergonomics There are many JVM command line flags. So, how do we find out which JVM flags are used? It turns out that JVM has flags to print flags. :) I tested following commands with Java 8. $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 15.04 Release: 15.04 Codename: vivid $ uname -a Linux isurup-ThinkPad-T530 3.19.0-26-generic #28-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 11 14:16:32 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Printing Command Line Flags We can use "-XX:+PrintCommandLineFlags" to print the command line flags used by the JVM. This is a useful flag to see the values selected by Java Ergonomics. $ java -XX:+PrintCommandLineFlags -version -XX:InitialHeapSize=...

I wanted to find out the processor details in my laptop and I found out that there are several ways to check. For example, see The RedHat community discussion on  Figuring out CPUs and Sockets . In this blog post, I'm listing few commands to find out details about CPUs. I'm using Ubuntu in my Lenovo ThinkPad T530 laptop and following commands should be working any Linux system. Display information about CPU architecture $ lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 4 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3 Thread(s) per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 2 Socket(s): 1 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 58 Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3520M CPU @ 2.90GHz Stepping: 9 CPU MHz: 1199.988 CPU max MHz: 3600.0000 CPU min MHz: 1200.0000 BogoMIPS: ...

I am learning about Linux Performance Tools and I found Brendan Gregg 's talks on Linux Performance  are very interesting. There are so many performance tools for Linux. Brendan recommends to follow a performance analysis methodology  to analyze system or application performance. These methodologies can guide us to choose and use these performance tools effectively. Linux Performance Observability Tools There are different types of command line tools available in Linux. In this blog post, I'm going to focus on Linux Performance Observability Tools . I highly recommend to watch Brendan's talk at Velocity 2015 on Linux Performance Tools and I took details about following tools from his presentation and his website. Linux Performance Observability Tools Taken from Brendan Gregg's Website:  http://www.brendangregg.com/Perf/linux_observability_tools.png Here are some examples of using Linux Performance Observability Tools in Ubuntu.  I tested each of th...