How to detect CPU loading issues with JTOP , Jconsole plugin

Why we need JTOP plugin ?

With JConsole , we can detect that there are high CPU load. But it does not tell what are the possible root causes for this CPU load. So , with JTOP plugin , it lists all the top level CPU usages in the process.

How to use JTOP plugin with JConsole ?

When starting the JConsole, you need to give the path to the JTop plugin. 

Eg: My JavaHome is : /opt/software/jdk1.6.0_29

$jconsole -pluginpath /opt/software/jdk1.6.0_29/demo/management/JTop/JTop.jar

General way to start the JConsole with JTop is described in Evanthika's Blog.

Why i wanted to use JTOP?

When i was testing my server, i experienced a high CPU usage with that server. So i wanted to isolate the issue i have in that server. So i started the JConsole with JTop plugin and my out put was as in following image.

With that i could find that , CPU is highly consumed by these threads. So when i looked in to the thread with "Thread" tab in JConsole, i could identify the root cause for the problem.

So, to identify the root cause of the CPU overloading issue, JTOP plugin helped me a lot.