I couldn't find the explanation of this in other threads, I've tried to search the archive.
I have a high load average on a server and the reason for that is kernel function futex_wait invoked by java thread. By doing jstack, I see a lot of BLOCKED threads like these: Thread 1725: (state = BLOCKED) - sun.misc.Unsafe.park(boolean, long) @bci=0 (Compiled frame; information may be imprecise) - java.util.concurrent.locks.LockSupport.parkNanos(java.lang.Object, long) @bci=20, line=215 (Compiled frame) - java.util.concurrent.locks.AbstractQueuedSynchronizer$ConditionObject.awaitNanos(long) @bci=78, line=2078 (Compiled frame) - java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingQueue.poll(long, java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit) @bci=62, line=467 (Compiled frame) - org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskQueue.poll(long, java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit) @bci=3, line=85 (Compiled frame) - org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskQueue.poll(long, java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit) @bci=3, line=31 (Compiled frame) - java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.getTask() @bci=134, line=1066 (Compiled frame) - java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker) @bci=26, line=1127 (Compiled frame) - java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run() @bci=5, line=617 (Compiled frame) - org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run() @bci=4, line=61 (Compiled frame) - java.lang.Thread.run() @bci=11, line=745 (Compiled frame) What does this org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run() actually does when BLOCKED? Should I perhaps lower some tomcat config values or just forget about measuring system resources if the server works? My tomcat is configured as follows: my Tomcat is configured as follows: <Connector port="8181" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol" SSLCertificateFile="/etc/letsencrypt/live/numbeo.com/cert.pem" SSLCertificateKeyFile="/etc/letsencrypt/live/ numbeo.com/privkey.pem" SSLCertificateChainFile="/etc/letsencrypt/live/ numbeo.com/chain.pem" SSLVerifyClient="optional" SSLProtocol="TLSv1+TLSv1.1+TLSv1.2" connectionTimeout="20000" acceptCount="30000" acceptorThreadCount="2" compression="on" maxConnections="50000" maxThreads="500" compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/plain,text/css,text/javascript,application/javascript,image/svg+xml,image/svg,image/png,image/jpeg" useSendfile="false" maxHttpHeaderSize="16392" SSLEnabled="true" enableLookups="false" scheme="https" secure="true" clientAuth="false" useBodyEncodingForURI="true" URIEncoding="UTF-8" />