Hi Roger, The stack traces are:
"process reaper" #44 daemon prio=10 os_prio=0 tid=0x0000000004083000 nid=0x7b1c waiting for monitor entry [0x00002b703ffbe000] java.lang.Thread.State: BLOCKED (on object monitor) at java.lang.UNIXProcess$ProcessPipeInputStream.processExited(UNIXProcess.java:528) - waiting to lock <0x00000000aba7a790> (a java.lang.UNIXProcess$ProcessPipeInputStream) at java.lang.UNIXProcess.lambda$initStreams$275(UNIXProcess.java:299) at java.lang.UNIXProcess$$Lambda$10/523574157.run(Unknown Source) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) "pool-1-thread-1" #43 prio=5 os_prio=0 tid=0x0000000003ee3800 nid=0x7b13 runnable [0x00002b7050837000] java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE at java.io.FileInputStream.readBytes(Native Method) at java.io.FileInputStream.read(FileInputStream.java:255) at java.io.BufferedInputStream.fill(BufferedInputStream.java:246) at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read1(BufferedInputStream.java:286) at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(BufferedInputStream.java:345) - locked <0x00000000aba7a790> (a java.lang.UNIXProcess$ProcessPipeInputStream) at SomeClass.callReadOnInputStream() SomeClass.callReadOnInputStream() is something that invokes InputStream.read(byte[], int, int) on the stream. Thanks On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Roger Riggs <roger.ri...@oracle.com> wrote: > Hi Vitaly, > > I haven't seen that before, please create a bug and include the stack > traces. > > Thanks, Roger > > > > On 3/30/2016 9:56 AM, Vitaly Davidovich wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> It seems that doing a blocking read on a subprocess's stdout can lead to >> deadlock between the thread doing the read and the process reaper thread. >> The deadlock occurs because the reader is synchronized on the >> ProcessPipeInputStream, blocks for more data to consume, and process >> reaper >> comes along trying to call processExited, which also synchronizes on the >> same PPIS. The reader appears stuck because it's not seeing the EOF due >> to >> process reaper not being able to close the stream. >> >> I couldn't find any existing reports of this via quick search, which makes >> me wonder if I'm missing something. Is this a known issue? >> >> Thanks >> >> >> >