Thread Dump Analysis - Treadmill 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 past days, I have shared articles which described Athlete and Atherosclerosis thread pattern. As you know that in the Athlete pattern, the thread was in Runnable state and did not consume CPU. Today, you will see the opposite case of Athlete Thread Pattern that is when the thread is in continuously Runnable state and consumes high CPU. Such type of thread pattern is named as Treadmill 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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