On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 04:34:53 GMT, Chris Plummer <cjplum...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> One other thing I just realized is that if we go through with this change, > then we can't in the future change VM.heap_dump so it can be used without any > filename (make it use a default filename when no filename is specified). > Setting HeapDumpPath would override this default filename, and it would be > really confusing to the user when suddenly heap dumps are not appearing in > the default location with the default name because someone decided to specify > HeapDumpPath when launching the JVM. Isn't this the case already for the -XX:+HeapDumpBeforeFullGC, -XX:+HeapDumpAfterFullGC scenarios? But probably it should be decided first if such a default is planned for VM.heap_dump . ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18190#issuecomment-2047487391
