Thread Dump Analysis - Traffic Jam 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 some previous posts, you have read the articles which described Athlete Pattern, Atherosclerosis Pattern and Treadmill Pattern. Today, you will see the situation where threads are totally blocked due to unavailability of the resources locked by some other threads. Such a situation leads to a system crash. This type of thread pattern is named as Traffic Jam Thread Pattern. A simple and descriptive article published in the fastThread blog on this horrible thread pattern.

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