title: jvisualvm in Unix
body: <p>We started to check the performance of my application as its getting slow after some time. I am using jvisualvm to observe the cause. Can anyone tell how can i use jvisualvm in Unix as in Windows we can check it through UI. Can we have the same view in Unix also.</p>
  
  <p>Lets my path to jvisualvm is /Prj/tools/java/bin/jvisualvm </p>
  
  <p>When i use help,</p>
  
  <pre><code>Usage: /Prj/tools/java/bin/../lib/visualvm//platform7/lib/nbexec {options} arguments  
  
  General options:  
    --help                show this help  
    --jdkhome &lt;path&gt;      path to Java(TM) 2 SDK, Standard Edition  
    -J&lt;jvm_option&gt;        pass &lt;jvm_option&gt; to JVM  
  
    --cp:p &lt;classpath&gt;    prepend &lt;classpath&gt; to classpath  
    --cp:a &lt;classpath&gt;    append &lt;classpath&gt; to classpath  
  Core options:  
    --laf &lt;LaF classname&gt; use given LookAndFeel class instead of the default  
    --fontsize &lt;size&gt;     set the base font size of the user interface, in points  
    --locale &lt;language[:country[:variant]]&gt; use specified locale  
    --userdir &lt;path&gt;      use specified directory to store user settings  
  
  Module reload options:  
    --reload /path/to/module.jar  Installs or reinstalls a module JAR file.
  </code></pre>