In Java 8u141 (1.8.0_141-b15) and newer, the
com.sun.management.HotSpotDiagnostic::dumpHeap API has changed and now
requires all heap dumps to end with the .hprof file extension.
Before this change, servers running 8u141 would be unable to perform a
heap dump.
For more information, please see the official release notes of Java 8
Update 141, linked below.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8u141-relnotes-3720385.html
To dump the server heap, run the following command:
`/paper heap`
This is added with the intent that it is useful for administrators and
developers to more easily identify and resolve memory leaks. Both by examining
these dumps themselves and by more easily allowing them to send them to
knowledgable parties.
This is a nearly line-for-line port of the same Sponge feature. So all
credit for the idea and implementation belongs to the that team.
Specifically the following commits:
be08be04b05e10a1b795
Shane Freeder
Zach Brown
Aikar