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Feature #17853

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Add Thread#thread_id

Added by komamitsu (Mitsunori Komatsu) almost 3 years ago. Updated about 1 year ago.

Status:
Closed
Assignee:
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Target version:
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[ruby-core:103756]

Description

Abstract

New method Thread#thread_id to get associated native thread id (LWP.) It might return nil if OS doesn't support thread id or equivalent.

Background

When I tried to investigate which Ruby thread of an application is busy, I did the following steps

  • checked the CPU usage of the Ruby application's threads using ps -eLf or top (with H key) and got which thread is busy
  • dumped all the threads of the application using https://github.com/frsyuki/sigdump
  • tried to find a busy thread in the thread dump result, but the thread dump doesn't contain thread id...

Thread class itself has no method to get associated thread id. If the class has #thread_id or something, I can create a PR on sigdump project to add thread id in thread dump output to make investigations with thread dump much easier.

Thread#name may seem an alternative to Thread#thread_id, but Thread#name just returns a value that's set through Thread#name= while Thread#thread_id returns a thread id that OS or something has assigned.

In case of Java, thread dump created by jcmd ${pid} Thread.print contains nid field which is an associated native thread id

"http-bio-80-exec-77" daemon prio=6 tid=0x0000000026f29000 nid=0xbd0 runnable [0x0000000020c7f000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE
    at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
    at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
    at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalInputBuffer.fill(InternalInputBuffer.java:516)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalInputBuffer.fill(InternalInputBuffer.java:501)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.setRequestLineReadTimeout(Http11Processor.java:167)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:946)
    at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:607)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:315)
    - locked <0x00000007b16e3e88> (a org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketWrapper)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

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Related to Ruby master - Feature #11251: Thread#name and Thread#name=ClosedActions
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