It's used to put threads to sleep that are blocking on user locks
(at least that's my recollection).

Run "prstat -Lmp <PID_OF_APP) - what does  the "LCK" column look like?

Try running plockstat -A -p <PID_OF_APP>.

Thanks,
/jim


Dtrace Email wrote:
Hi,  when doing dtrace on an appliction, __lwp_park() seems to be taking a lot 
of time.  What does it really do?   is it waiting for threads?

Thanks,
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