10 Investigating deadlocks with thread dumps
This chapter covers
- Getting thread dumps using a profiler
- Getting thread dumps using the command line
- Reading thread dumps to investigate issues
In this chapter, we’ll discuss using thread dumps to analyze thread execution at a given moment in time. Often, we use thread dumps in situations in which the application becomes unresponsive, such as in the case of a deadlock. A deadlock occurs when multiple threads pause their execution and wait for each other to fulfill a given condition. If hypothetical thread A waits for thread B to do something, and thread B waits for thread A, neither can continue their execution. In such a case, the app, or at least a part of it, will freeze. We need to know how ...
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