how-to-monitor-gradle-daemon-memory-cpu-usage.md

How to monitor Gradle daemon CPU & RAM usage (or any other JVM proccess)

1. Install and open VisualVM

brew casks install visualvm

2. Stop existing daemons

./gradlew --stop

3. When e.g. running Android compilation, Gradle will spawn two daemons: Gradle Daemon and Kotlin Compile Daemon. To merge those two into one daemon, specify kotlin compiler execution strategy like this:

-Dkotlin.compiler.execution.strategy="in-process"

4. See results on the right, it should be simillar to this: