On Sep 18, 2011, at 4:56 PM, Joern Huxhorn wrote:

> 
> On 19.09.2011, at 01:29, Ralph Goers wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Sep 18, 2011, at 3:01 PM, Joern Huxhorn wrote:
>> 
>>> Sorry, I was confused and mixed something up...
>>> 
>>> I *planned* to implement a thread-specific sequence number but never did 
>>> so. I also considered logging the ThreadGroup-hierarchy but didn't do so, 
>>> yet, because of the expected performance impact.
>>> 
>>> Which reminds me, completely off-topic, of another idea concerning a custom 
>>> Message implementation:
>>> A ThreadDumpMessage that would not get any parameter at all and would 
>>> consist of a ThreadDump if it is actually logged, including the ThreadGroup 
>>> info etc..
>>> This would have helped me immensely in the past. Instead, I had to trigger 
>>> thread dumps via SIG_QUIT at a random points of execution.
>>> 
>>> Such a Message wouldn't be used in production under normal circumstances 
>>> but could be enabled in case of strange concurrency issues...
>> 
>> I added it, but as I said, I wish I knew how to include the locks. 
>> 
>> FWIW, I could have used this 2 days ago when we were trying to debug just 
>> such a concurrency issue.
>> 
> 
> I think 
> http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/management/ThreadMXBean.html
>  could be what you are looking for. 
> Haven't given it a try, yet.

Thanks, I'll give it a try.

Ralph
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