Yes. Lots of info in http://www.sun.com/software/whitepapers/solaris9/multithread.pdf

Jim Mauro wrote:
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?

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