When you're running a process and it either freezes or becomes sluggish for no apparent reason,
it's a good idea to generate a thread dump, file a bug report with a description of what happened
and attach the dump to it.
A thread dump is an invaluable source of information to Java developers when investigating
deadlocks and some performance issues. It is a textual dump of all active threads and monitors
of Java apps running in a Virtual Machine.
The ways to generate a thread dump differ depending on the platform:
- Windows systems
- Unix systems
Press Ctrl-\ in the terminal console you used to start the Integration Server.
Alternatively, you can also generate a thread dump by sending the QUIT signal to the Java VM running the Integration Server
kill -QUIT process_id
where process_id is the process number of the respective java process.
Note: Please keep in mind that you should never copy the thread dump into the description field of an issue report. Thread dumps tend to be tens to hundreds lines of text long and the lines are typically wide and won't wrap nicely in the description field. You should always attach thread dumps to issues as attachments of type text/plain.
-- CharltonBarreto - 27 Jun 2004
