How to troubleshoot an unresponsive Java application/process in Linux

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Published on 2009-05-04T00:54:15Z Indexed on 2010/05/26 23:51 UTC
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Say your application is unresponsive and you cannot attach a debugger to it, as it rejects everything. All you have is a Linux Bash and process id. How would you investigate the issue? What tools would you use? My goal is to better my troubleshooting skills using Java.

This particular issue we had in production, on customer site.

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