High CPU in selector polls on EAP 7

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • On EAP 7, we note high CPU in default I/O threads performing selector polls:
"default I/O-24" #142 prio=5 os_prio=0 tid=0x0000000005e7a800 nid=0x1ce7d runnable [0x00007fff4b934000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
        at sun.nio.ch.EPollArrayWrapper.epollWait(Native Method)
        at sun.nio.ch.EPollArrayWrapper.poll(EPollArrayWrapper.java:269)
        at sun.nio.ch.EPollSelectorImpl.doSelect(EPollSelectorImpl.java:93)
        at sun.nio.ch.SelectorImpl.lockAndDoSelect(SelectorImpl.java:86)
        - locked <0x00000000899d7720> (a sun.nio.ch.Util$3)
        - locked <0x00000000899d7730> (a java.util.Collections$UnmodifiableSet)
        - locked <0x00000000899d76d8> (a sun.nio.ch.EPollSelectorImpl)
        at sun.nio.ch.SelectorImpl.select(SelectorImpl.java:97)
        at org.xnio.nio.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:551)

Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7.x

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