[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (WFCORE-40) Deadlock while logging

Deadlock while logging ---------------------- Key: WFCORE-40 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFCORE-40 Project: WildFly Core Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: Logging Environment: CentOS 6.5 64bit, java7u45 64bit (and 32 bit, the same behavior) Reporter: Stefan Schueffler Assignee: James Perkins Priority: Critical Attachments: stack_140901_2254 We hit really often a deadlock? in org.jboss.stdio.StdioContext$DelegatingPrintStream.println(StdioContext.java:474) Even if the "StdioContext" belongs to Jboss-Logging, the problem occurs in our production wildfly installation twice to 4 times a day - all threads are deadlocking while trying to log.debug, log.error, or (sometimes) System.out.println from our application code, and wildfly does not respond anymore... The partial stacktrace always is similar to this one: {code} "default task-64" prio=10 tid=0x4c539c00 nid=0x5ef9 waiting for monitor entry [0x495e0000] java.lang.Thread.State: BLOCKED (on object monitor) at java.io.PrintStream.println(PrintStream.java:806) - waiting to lock <0x5ee0adf8> (a java.io.PrintStream) at org.jboss.stdio.StdioContext$DelegatingPrintStream.println(StdioContext.java:474) at jsp.communications.statuschange.selectStatus_jsp._jspService(selectStatus_jsp.java:413) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:69) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:790) at io.undertow.servlet.handlers.ServletHandler.handleRequest(ServletHandler.java:85) at io.undertow.servlet.handlers.FilterHandler.handleRequest(FilterHandler.java:82) {code} While investigating the StdioContext - class, i really wondered whether the used "locking/checking by using a threadlocal" could have worked in a multi-threaded environment (it should have the very same problems as every "double checking" algorithm without proper synchronization). If all threads are hanging in this particular lock, only a full wildfly-restart recovers in our case. My preferred solution would be a rework of the used org.jboss.stdio. classes, as the used idioms of ThreadLocals for reentrant-checks are at least highly unusual?