High CPU, possibly due to context switching?

Question

One of our servers is experiencing a very high CPU load with our application. We\'ve looked at various stats and are having issues finding the source of the problem.

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Answer 1

Usually, context switching in threads is very cheap computationally, but when it involves this many threads... you just can't know. You say upgrading to Java 1.6 EE is out of the question, but what about some hardware upgrades ? It would probably provide a quick fix and shouldn't be that expensive...