Author: Ram Lakshmanan

In this latest article of the series about simulating and troubleshooting performance problems in Kotlin, let’s discuss how to make threads go into a BLOCKED state. A thread will enter into a BLOCKED state if it can’t acquire a lock on an object because another thread already holds the lock on the same object and doesn’t release it.

Kotlin BLOCKED Thread Program

Here is a sample program that would make threads go into a BLOCKED state.

In this series of simulating and troubleshooting performance problems in Kotlin, let’s discuss how to simulate StackOverflow errors. StackOverflow error is a runtime error, which is thrown when a thread’s stack size exceeds its allocated memory limit. 

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JVM memory has the following regions: 

JVM memory regions