title: jvisualvm: Stuck on “Loading Heap Dump...” screen
body: <p>I am using jdk64 and my java version is "1.6.0_24". My tomcat is running with -Xmx7196m, and jvisualvm is running with -J-Xms2048m -J-Xmx3072m.
  I took a heap dump of my tomcat java process and size of my <code>.hprof</code> file is around 5.5 GB. When I try to open this heap dump, it just stuck on <code>Loading Heap Dump...</code> screen.</p>
  
  <p>I also looked at the heap consumption of VisualVM while it is trying to open the heap dump, but that goes around 500MB only.</p>
  
  <p><strong>NOTE:</strong> I did look at <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/16461494/948268">jvisualvm: Stuck on “Loading Heap Dump” screen</a> question but it is different and does not address my question.</p>