JBoss creates many management handler threads
Issue
- We frequently connect to JBoss via the CLI multiple times per minute. We see many idle management-handler-threads as a result:
"management-handler-thread - 3" prio=10 tid=0x00007f302c087000 nid=0x2a69 waiting on condition [0x00007f300420e000]
java.lang.Thread.State: TIMED_WAITING (parking)
at sun.misc.Unsafe.park(Native Method)
- parking to wait for <0x00000000fb2625a0> (a java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer$ConditionObject)
at java.util.concurrent.locks.LockSupport.parkNanos(LockSupport.java:226)
at java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer$ConditionObject.awaitNanos(AbstractQueuedSynchronizer.java:2082)
at java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingQueue.poll(LinkedBlockingQueue.java:467)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.getTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1068)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1130)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:122)
Environment
- JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6.4.0 and earlier
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