AWK

Introduction When working on performance issues in Java applications, one often needs to analyze thread dumps. In tightly controlled environments you may not have access to any of the default tools to generate the thread dumps like jstack. In this case, typically these dumps are generated by sending a kill -3 signal to the Java process, appending the output to catalina.out. This blog post describes an efficient method to extract these thread dumps using an AWK script, making the analysis process smoother and faster....