java - Prevent program from crashing when showing allocation stack traces

Question

Question

Why does VisualVM terminate my program when attempting to view object allocation stack trace, and how do I fix it?

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I'm cleaning up an application which has a few memory problems, the biggest being creating a bunch of short-lived int[] which causes GC to fire like crazy:

When I right click int[] and choose Take Snapshot and Show Allocation Stack Traces, my application closes and a warning box pops up saying Failed to obtain results snapshot. The application terminated:

The closest thing I found on the subject was a bug report which recommended running my profiled application with -Xnoclassgc. It didn't work, the results were the same.

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Specs

VisualVM: 1.8.0_60 (Build 1380-140910); platform 20140910-unknown-revn
Java: 1.8.0_60; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.60-b23, mixed mode)
Eclipse: Luna Release (4.4.0) Build id: 20140612-0600
System: Windows 7 (6.1) Service Pack 1, amd64 64bit

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Crash log

http://pastebin.com/a4YPWutj

_{The size of the crash log exceeded the character limit, so I had to place it elsewhere. Sorry.}

Answer 1

Ok. So based on the crashlog obtained, it looks like you ran into a VisualVM bug already reported here:

JVM being profiled crashes

The submitter of the original bug narrowed this behavior down to Java8, so the best chance you have is running a VisualVM on an older (Java7) runtime. If this is an option for you, then you only need to download a Java7 JDK and run the VisualVM directly from there.