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As software developers, we often encounter peculiar bugs that seem to defy logic. Recently I came across an Heisenbug while investigating an issue and realized that there were other jargons used for denoting the elusive variety of software bugs. These elusive issues have inspired a colorful vocabulary within the programming community. Here are the widely used ones.

More often than not, we would be in a situation where we have to investigate cpu starvation. While it is easy to find the process consuming the most cpu cycles, it gets difficult to identify the specific thread that is consuming the memory. Identifying the thread helps in taking correcttive action on logic causing it. In this article, I am outlining the procedure to find the specific jvm thread that is using the cpu.