LoadRunner – Introduction

what is loadrunner

“LoadRunner” is the biggest name in the performance testing world. Loadrunner has a variety of protocol support which covers nearly all types of software platforms. It has a long history which could be worthless to discuss here but as a performance tester, you should know it. Therefore I described the past journey of LoadRunner in … Read more

AWR Report

AWR Report

In the heap dump and thread dump analysis topics, we have seen how the snapshot of memory and thread at a particular time describes the whole picture and helps to determine the performance bottleneck. In a similar fashion, the Automatic Workload Repository (also caller AWR) report provides information about the database bottleneck. Dump vs AWR: The difference between the … Read more

How to read Thread Dump?

Thread Dump - How to Read Thread Dump

In the previous post, you have seen how to generate Thread Dump on different operating systems. After generating the Thread dump, the next question comes which is “How to read Thread Dump?”. Thread dump provides some generic information in the first part and the later part has the detail of Thread which is used for … Read more

Thread Dump Generation

The generation of Thread Dump can be done through various methods, especially on Windows servers. Following are the steps to generate the thread dump on Unix, Linux and Windows machines. On Unix Server: Step 1: Before generating the thread dump you must know the Java process ID running on the server. The Java processID (PID) … Read more

Life Cycle of Thread

Thread Dump - Life Cycle of Thread

To analyse the Thread Dump it is necessary to know about the different states of the thread. These states are also called as “life cycle of the thread”. There are total 6 major states of the thread which are: 1. New:  This is the initial state of the thread. When a thread is created, it … Read more