High CPU in NIO Selector calls

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • We are seeing high CPU in remoting threads making calls on NIO Selectors, for example:
"Remoting "smisqa2:smisqa2-a:MANAGEMENT" read-1" prio=3 tid=0x0000000101b3e000 nid=0x18 runnable [0xffffffff71efe000]
    java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
      at sun.nio.ch.DevPollArrayWrapper.poll0(Native Method)
      at sun.nio.ch.DevPollArrayWrapper.poll(DevPollArrayWrapper.java:220)
      at sun.nio.ch.DevPollSelectorImpl.doSelect(DevPollSelectorImpl.java:84)
      at sun.nio.ch.SelectorImpl.lockAndDoSelect(SelectorImpl.java:87)
      - locked <0xffffffff586bcc20> (a sun.nio.ch.Util$2)
      - locked <0xffffffff586bcc10> (a java.util.Collections$UnmodifiableSet)
      - locked <0xffffffff586b7f90> (a sun.nio.ch.DevPollSelectorImpl)
      at sun.nio.ch.SelectorImpl.select(SelectorImpl.java:98)
      at sun.nio.ch.SelectorImpl.select(SelectorImpl.java:102)
      at org.xnio.nio.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:153)

Or:

"Thread-83" prio=6 tid=0x00000000285d9000 nid=0x1398 runnable [0x000000002e55f000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
    at sun.nio.ch.WindowsSelectorImpl$SubSelector.poll0(Native Method)
    at sun.nio.ch.WindowsSelectorImpl$SubSelector.poll(WindowsSelectorImpl.java:295)
    at sun.nio.ch.WindowsSelectorImpl$SubSelector.access$400(WindowsSelectorImpl.java:277)
    at sun.nio.ch.WindowsSelectorImpl.doSelect(WindowsSelectorImpl.java:158)
    at sun.nio.ch.SelectorImpl.lockAndDoSelect(SelectorImpl.java:87)
    - locked <0x00000006d1693fa0> (a sun.nio.ch.Util$2)
    - locked <0x00000006d1693f90> (a java.util.Collections$UnmodifiableSet)
    - locked <0x00000006d1693fb0> (a sun.nio.ch.WindowsSelectorImpl)
    at sun.nio.ch.SelectorImpl.selectNow(SelectorImpl.java:106)
    at org.jboss.sun.net.httpserver.ServerImpl$Dispatcher.run(ServerImpl.java:445)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)

Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 6
  • Java 6

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