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Infinite loop trying to start a process in jBPM 5.1
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created by <a href="https://community.jboss.org/people/arkper">Arkady Perepelyuk</a> in <i>jBPM</i> - <a href="https://community.jboss.org/message/758898#758898">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Every once in a while (once a few weeks roughly) we encounter this really bad issue in production running jBPM 5.1. A few threads get stuck forever utilizing a lot of CPU resources. </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>The thread dump looks as follows:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>"Dispatcher-Channel-25" daemon prio=10 tid=0x000000005bbfc800 nid=0x7035 runnable [0x00000000455ba000]</p><p>   java.lang.Thread.State: RUNNABLE</p><p>                at java.util.HashMap.get(HashMap.java:303)</p><p>                at org.jbpm.process.instance.event.DefaultSignalManager.addEventListener(DefaultSignalManager.java:53)</p><p>                at org.jbpm.workflow.instance.impl.WorkflowProcessInstanceImpl.addEventListener(WorkflowProcessInstanceImpl.java:382)</p><p>                at org.jbpm.workflow.instance.node.SubProcessNodeInstance.addProcessListener(SubProcessNodeInstance.java:163)</p><p>                at org.jbpm.workflow.instance.node.SubProcessNodeInstance.internalTrigger(SubProcessNodeInstance.java:132)</p><p>                at org.jbpm.workflow.instance.impl.NodeInstanceImpl.trigger(NodeInstanceImpl.java:122)</p><p>                at org.jbpm.workflow.instance.impl.NodeInstanceImpl.triggerConnection(NodeInstanceImpl.java:185)</p><p>                at org.jbpm.workflow.instance.impl.NodeInstanceImpl.triggerCompleted(NodeInstanceImpl.java:150)</p><p>                at org.jbpm.workflow.instance.node.SplitInstance.internalTrigger(SplitInstance.java:61)</p><p>                at org.jbpm.workflow.instance.impl.NodeInstanceImpl.trigger(NodeInstanceImpl.java:122)</p><p>                at org.jbpm.workflow.instance.impl.NodeInstanceImpl.triggerConnection(NodeInstanceImpl.java:185)</p><p>                at org.jbpm.workflow.instance.impl.NodeInstanceImpl.triggerCompleted(NodeInstanceImpl.java:150)</p><p>                at org.jbpm.workflow.instance.node.StartNodeInstance.triggerCompleted(StartNodeInstance.java:49)</p><p>                at org.jbpm.workflow.instance.node.StartNodeInstance.internalTrigger(StartNodeInstance.java:41)</p><p>                at org.jbpm.workflow.instance.impl.NodeInstanceImpl.trigger(NodeInstanceImpl.java:122)</p><p>                at org.jbpm.ruleflow.instance.RuleFlowProcessInstance.internalStart(RuleFlowProcessInstance.java:35)</p><p>                at org.jbpm.process.instance.impl.ProcessInstanceImpl.start(ProcessInstanceImpl.java:188)</p><p>                - locked <0x00002aaad8bf9ec8> (a org.jbpm.ruleflow.instance.RuleFlowProcessInstance)</p><p>                at org.jbpm.workflow.instance.impl.WorkflowProcessInstanceImpl.start(WorkflowProcessInstanceImpl.java:302)</p><p>                - locked <0x00002aaad8bf9ec8> (a org.jbpm.ruleflow.instance.RuleFlowProcessInstance)</p><p>                at org.jbpm.process.instance.ProcessRuntimeImpl.startProcessInstance(ProcessRuntimeImpl.java:154)</p><p>                at org.jbpm.process.instance.ProcessRuntimeImpl.startProcess(ProcessRuntimeImpl.java:124)</p><p>                at org.drools.common.AbstractWorkingMemory.startProcess(AbstractWorkingMemory.java:1095)</p><p>                at org.drools.impl.StatefulKnowledgeSessionImpl.startProcess(StatefulKnowledgeSessionImpl.java:306)</p><p>                at com.jpm.wss.gfs.wq.bpm.jbpm5.Jbpm5SessionImpl.startProcess(Jbpm5SessionImpl.java:532)</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Typically three threads would be in trouble. Here’s the last UNIX top command showing the three threads running very high CPU:</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>28725 a_tyger0  25   0 3638m 1.9g  10m R 98.5 24.0  27:20.43 /usr/java/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/app/tyger/fcHome/deployment/bpm_201_01/conf/</p><p>28730 a_tyger0  25   0 3638m 1.9g  10m R 98.5 24.0  27:07.01 /usr/java/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/app/tyger/fcHome/deployment/bpm_201_01/conf/</p><p>28726 a_tyger0  25   0 3638m 1.9g  10m R 98.1 24.0  30:29.38 /usr/java/bin/java -Djava.util.logging.config.file=/app/tyger/fcHome/deployment/bpm_201_01/conf/</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>The only way to resolve the condition is to restart the JVM. It’s a very serious issue in our environment putting in doubt the whole idea of using jBPM5 for a critical production application. </p><p>Any insight will be deeply appreciated.</p></div>
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