Looking for description of JVM internal threads

Christian Thalinger christian.thalinger at oracle.com
Wed Apr 18 21:36:17 PDT 2012


Maybe this helps:

https://wikis.oracle.com/display/HotSpotInternals/Home

(a lot of stuff is probably outdated)

-- Chris

On Apr 18, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Le Huy wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I am writing a document about JVM internal threads e.g.
> 
> * "Attach Listener"
> * "VM Thread"
> * "C2 CompilerThreadXX"
> * "Signal Dispatcher"
> * "Finalizer"
> * "Reference Handler"
> * "Low Memory Detector"
> * "VM Periodic Task Thread"
> * ""GC task thread#XX"
> 
> The purpose of the document is to help the team to analyze and
> identify issues from native stack captured from JVM
> in production.
> 
> Can you recommend any source of information about them such as  what
> are the role of each thread,
> how they communicate with each other, how they are kicked off, etc. ?



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