I/O perspective

This perspective provides information about I/O activities performed by the target Java™ Virtual Machine (JVM).

Applications monitored by the Health Center might perform input or output (I/O) tasks as they run. The I/O perspective gives you information about these activities. You can use this perspective to help you solve problems such as when the application fails to close files.

The I/O perspective provides information about three aspects.
  • File open events
  • File close events
  • Details of files that are currently open
The information is presented in one of three views.

File open view

This view reports the number of files currently held open by the target application. Use this view to find out if the number of open files is increasing. An increasing number indicates that the application might not be closing file handles after use.

File I/O view

This view shows information about each file open or file close event. Use this view to help you identify problems with I/O bottlenecks.

Open file details view

This view shows information about the files currently held open by the target application. The information includes the file name, and the time it was opened. You can filter the information in this view by using the text box before the view. For more information about filtering, see Filtering.