# Interface BufferPoolMXBean

All Superinterfaces:
  `PlatformManagedObject`

public interface BufferPoolMXBean extends PlatformManagedObject
The management interface for a buffer pool, for example a pool of `direct` or `mapped` buffers.

A class implementing this interface is an `MXBean`. A Java virtual machine has one or more implementations of this interface. The `getPlatformMXBeans` method can be used to obtain the list of `BufferPoolMXBean` objects representing the management interfaces for pools of buffers as follows:

        List<BufferPoolMXBean> pools = ManagementFactory.getPlatformMXBeans(BufferPoolMXBean.class);

The management interfaces are also registered with the platform `MBeanServer`. The `ObjectName` that uniquely identifies the management interface within the `MBeanServer` takes the form:

        java.nio:type=BufferPool,name=pool name

where pool name is the `name` of the buffer pool.

Since:
  1.7

- ## Method Summary

  Modifier and Type
  Method
  Description
  `long`
  `getCount()`
  Returns an estimate of the number of buffers in the pool.
  `long`
  `getMemoryUsed()`
  Returns an estimate of the memory that the Java virtual machine is using for this buffer pool.
  `String`
  `getName()`
  Returns the name representing this buffer pool.
  `long`
  `getTotalCapacity()`
  Returns an estimate of the total capacity of the buffers in this pool.

  ### Methods declared in interface PlatformManagedObject

  `getObjectName`
  Modifier and Type
  Method
  Description
  `ObjectName`
  `getObjectName()`
  Returns an `ObjectName` instance representing the object name of this platform managed object.

- ## Method Details

  - ### getName

    String getName()
    Returns the name representing this buffer pool.
    Returns:
      The name of this buffer pool.

  - ### getCount

    long getCount()
    Returns an estimate of the number of buffers in the pool.
    Returns:
      An estimate of the number of buffers in this pool

  - ### getTotalCapacity

    long getTotalCapacity()
    Returns an estimate of the total capacity of the buffers in this pool. A buffer's capacity is the number of elements it contains and the value returned by this method is an estimate of the total capacity of buffers in the pool in bytes.
    Returns:
      An estimate of the total capacity of the buffers in this pool in bytes

  - ### getMemoryUsed

    long getMemoryUsed()
    Returns an estimate of the memory that the Java virtual machine is using for this buffer pool. The value returned by this method may differ from the estimate of the total `capacity` of the buffers in this pool. This difference is explained by alignment, memory allocator, and other implementation specific reasons.
    Returns:
      An estimate of the memory that the Java virtual machine is using for this buffer pool in bytes, or `-1L` if an estimate of the memory usage is not available