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Often time I come across situations where server comes under high CPU load. There is a simple way to find out which application thread(s) are responsible for the load. To get the thread which has the highest CPU load, issue:

ps -mo pid,lwp,stime,time,cpu -p 

LWP stands for Light-Weight Process and typically refers to kernel threads. To identify the thread, get the LWP with highest CPU load, and convert its unique number (xxxx) into a hexadecimal number (0xxxx).

Get the java stack dump using jstack -l command and find the thread based on the hex humber identified above.