Thread dumps are vital artifacts to diagnose CPU spikes, deadlocks, poor response times, memory problems, unresponsive applications, and other system problems. There are great online thread dump analysis tools such as http://fastthread.io/, which can analyse and spot problems. But to... Continue Reading →
Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS) is one of the India's largest conferences for software professionals, held in Bangalore every year. This year, GIDS celebrated its 10th anniversary with the convergence of over 4000 novices, experienced and senior developers across the... Continue Reading →
COMPANY: Softaria FOUNDED: 2002 EMPLOYEES: ~ 50 INDUSTRY: COMPUTER SOFTWARE SERVICES Softaria specializes in system creation for automation of business processes and product use on the Internet. These systems are accessible in any part of the world... Continue Reading →
In a lot of enterprises, performance tests are conducted regularly. As part of these tests, QA team gathers various metrics and publishes them in a performance report. Metrics reported in the performance report typically tend to be: CPU utilization Memory... Continue Reading →
Non-daemon threads are also known as 'user' threads. JVM will not exit even if only 1 non-daemon (i.e. user) thread is alive. On the other hand, JVM will exit even if multiple daemon threads are alive. When JVM halts, daemon... Continue Reading →
BLOCKED, WAITING, and TIMED_WAITING are important thread states, but often confusing to many of us. One must have a proper understanding of these thread states in order to analyze thread dumps. Using real-life examples, this video breaks down each state into... Continue Reading →
Here is another presentation on "Don't Dump Thread Dumps" at Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS), Bangalore.
The latest JAX Magazine issue is out now. The magazine consists of articles that elucidate how digital transformation is reshaping the future of finance. We are happy to share that our founder, Ram Lakshmanan, also contributed an article "The Leprechaun... Continue Reading →
In this modern world, thread dumps are still analyzed in a tedious & manual mode i.e., you have to get hold of DevOps team, ask them to send you the thread dumps, then they will mail you the thread dumps, then you will... Continue Reading →
A potential customer asked us this question: "How GCEasy & FastThread are compared to JVisualVM?". As it was a great question, here was our answer: 1. Intelligence FastThread and GCEasy apply several intelligence patterns to detect the problems in the Garbage... Continue Reading →
