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Which Java thread consumes my CPU?
What do you do when your Java application consumes 100% of the CPU? Turns out you can easily find the problematic thread(s) using built-in UNIX and JDK tools. No profilers or agents ...
8 Ways to improve your Java EE Production Support skills
Everybody involved in Java EE production support know this job can be difficult; 7/24 pager support, multiple incidents and bug fixes to deal with on a regular basis, pressure from ...
Java Thread at RUNNABLE state is not really running
Recently, I was doing an analysis/tuning on a Java application server installation in order to identify the bottlenecks and fix them. The most common action in such procedure (tuning) ...
Memory Access Patterns Are Important
In high-performance computing it is often said that the cost of a cache-miss is the largest performance penalty for an algorithm. For many years the increase in speed of our processors ...
Oracle Service Bus – Stuck Thread Case Study
This case study describes the complete root cause analysis process of a stuck thread problem experienced with Oracle Service Bus 11g running on AIX 6.1 and IBM Java VM ...
5 tips for proper Java Heap size
Determination of proper Java Heap size for a production system is not a straightforward exercise. In my Java EE enterprise experience, I have seen multiple performance problem cases ...
How to analyze Thread Dump – Thread Stack Trace
This article is part 5 of our Thread Dump analysis series. So far you have learned the basic principles of Threads and their interactions with your Java EE container & JVM. You ...
JRockit – JRCMD useful commands
I have been using JRockit since many years 2007. I find it slower than Hotspot, but it has been always better on diagnosis and analysis of problems. Since last summer, I have been working ...
Tracking excessive garbage collection in Hotspot JVM
Quite frequently due to memory leaks or other memory problems applications freeze leaving only the garbage collector (GC) process running unsuccessfully trying to free some space. ...
Just in Time Compiler (JIT) in Hotspot
The Just In Time Compiler (JIT) concept and more generally adaptive optimization is well known concept in many languages besides Java (.Net, Lua, JRuby). In order to explain what is ...
