https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=63922
Bug ID: 63922 Summary: The Native Memory Tracking cannot be activated by Tomcat 7, 8 or 9 windows service Product: Tomcat 9 Version: unspecified Hardware: PC OS: All Status: NEW Severity: major Priority: P2 Component: Packaging Assignee: dev@tomcat.apache.org Reporter: artur.linh...@algites.eu Target Milestone: ----- In the case the user specifies some from the the NativeMemoryTracking parameters (see https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/vm/native-memory-tracking.html#GUID-0DB3B8D1-8D7D-447F-B6FF-15620103EE47 ) like -XX:NativeMemoryTracking=summary in Windows service registry, restarts the service, so the option can be seen in the log file by the startup options, then teh Native memory tracking is still disabled and does not work. If you try with jcmd <pid> VM.native_memory summary to get the information about the native JVM memory in the tomcats JVM, the jcmd call fails with the message <pid>: Native memory tracking is not enabled and in the Tomcat's log file can be found following error message: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: Native Memory Tracking did not setup properly, using wrong launcher? The problem seems to be in the JVM launcher Procrun, which dies not initialize the JVM propertly - as far as I have understood from this blog: https://blogs.oracle.com/poonam/using-nmt-with-custom-jvm-launcher The Procrun.exe has to define some environmetn variable before the start of JVM, etc. to get the native memory tracking to work. Known workaround is the start of Tomcat from the command line, but this is no option in the productive environment, where you have to let the service run for longer time to collect the proper result and maybe also as some different user because of security concerns, then such option is simply out of possible scenarios. So the Tomcat service JVM cannot be in such circumstances tracked by NMT at all, what is the problem in the mission-critical applications. The Procrun should be modified in the way it enables the NMT in the windows service by the startup, by setting the environment variable NMT_LEVEL_<pid> to the value "detail" or "summary" (or "off" if unspecified) in the dependency on the specified or unspecified option of -XX:NativeMemoryTracking like done normally by java.exe Remark: Also change of the startup mode from "jvm" to "exe" or "java" does not help,. then the windows service does not start at all. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org