Adding note about location of dump created

cchesser · Aug 23, 2017 · b664a9c · b664a9c
1 parent 4340de8
commit b664a9c
Showing 1 changed file with 2 additions and 0 deletions.
diff --git a/part_4/README.md b/part_4/README.md
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ are running as the same OS user as the target JVM process.
 jcmd <PID> GC.heap_dump my_little_heap_dump.hprof
 ```
 
+**Note:** If a full path is not specified, the heap_dump will be created relative to the location from where the process was started (when generated with jcmd)
+
 ### jmap
 
 A more traditional approach is using `jmap` and invoking the command on the target process.