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DH Syntax

dh {-p n | -p -1 | -p 0 [-k] [-o]} [-l] [-m] [-s] [-g] [-h] [-t] [-b] [-i] [-f fileName] [--] [-?]

Where:

-p n

displays information about process with client ID of n in dh_n.dmp. default flags for -p n are -s -g.

-p -1

displays information about Win32 subsystem process in dh_win32.dmp.

-p 0

displays information about kernel memory and objects in dh_sys.dmp. default flags for -p 0 are -m -s -g -t -k -o.

• -k
• displays information about processes and threads (valid only with -p 0).
• -o
• displays information about object handles (valid only with -p 0).
• -l
• displays information about locks.
• -m
• displays information about module table.
• -s
• displays summary information about heaps.
• -g
• displays information about memory hogs. This option displays a sorted list of call sites that have allocated the most memory. Each call site is identified by a symbolic stack >back trace of up 16 levels that should uniquely identify the code path that resulted in the memory allocations.
• -h
• displays information about heap entries for each heap.
• -t
• displays information about heap tags for each heap.
• -b
• displays information about stack back trace database.
• -i
• ignores information about stack back trace database.

-f filename

specifies the name of the file to write the dump to.

--

specifies the dump output should be written to STDOUT.

-?

displays this usage information.