In the series of chaos engineering articles, we have been learning to simulate various performance problems. In this post, let’s discuss how to make threads go into a BLOCKED state.
Sample Program
Here is a sample program from the open-source BuggyApp application, which would make threads go into a BLOCKED state. A thread will enter into a BLOCKED state when it couldn’t acquire a lock on an object because another thread already holds the lock on the same object and doesn’t release it. Review the program carefully.