Are there any liveness issues about thread scheduling in the JVM? (original) (raw)

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Sun Jul 15 17:55:02 PDT 2012

On 10/07/2012 9:20 PM, Xie Xiaodong wrote:

We are facing some interesting behavior in production. Here are some thread dumps taken at different time. During this period, only httpSSLWorkerThread-10080-99 can make progress. Other threads were always stuck in the synchronization point. And "waiting to lock <0x75b395d8>", this hex number changed several times. What does this number mean?

An example:

The number is the address of an object that the threads are trying to lock. It is an instance of casinomodule.util.TimeUtilImpl. If the address, for a given thread, keeps changing, it means that the threads are in fact making progress, as they must have locked object form the previous stack dump and then moved on to the current one. If the number is different for different threads then they are simply trying to lock different objects.

There would appears to be a synchronization bottleneck in this "casinomodule"

David

Thanks a lot for your time.

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