Thread Dump Analysis - Athlete Pattern - By fastThread

Thread Dump is a snapshot of the status of all the threads at a particular time. Thread dumps are vital artefacts to diagnose CPU spikes, deadlocks, poor response times, memory problems, unresponsive applications, and other system problems. Thread Dump helps to find out what every thread in the JVM is doing at a particular point in time. A common phenomenon is once a high CPU usage is observed then thread dump analysis is required. In the analysis, threads are categorised on the basis of their states. But what happens when a thread is in Runnable state and does not consume any CPU? Have you heard about such type of thread?

Today you will come to know about Athlete Thread Pattern. A simple and descriptive article published in fastThread blog. Happy to share with you to enhance your knowledge repository.

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