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Is visualvm able to detect livelocks?

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Is VisualVM able to detect livelocks? If cannot do it automatically which actions possible to help to reveal livelocks?

Solution

  • No, it cannot, because threads are doing something and it's impossible to detect if it's something useful or just moving back and forth