Java 9 High Performance

What is a thread dump?

All commands in Java programming are the by-product of threads and processes. Threads are similar to processes except they are lighter in weight and require fewer resources to create a new one. Every process that is used to execute a command consists of at least one thread that contains valuable resources, such as open files and memory.

Since each thread has the capacity to provide additional threads, programmers need to know the intricacies of a process and the various threads to avoid the possibility of communication errors. This is where thread dumps are important.

A thread dump, as the name suggests, is a collection of all threads in a Java programming system that are part of a specific process. Analyzing thread ...