How to get the number of threads in a Java process

Question

How can I see the number of threads in a Java process?

Answer 1

Useful tool for debugging java programs, it gives the number of threads and other relevant info on them:

jconsole <process-id>

Answer 2

I have written a program to iterate all Threads created and printing getState() of each Thread

import java.util.Set;

public class ThreadStatus {
    public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception{
        for ( int i=0; i< 5; i++){
            Thread t = new Thread(new MyThread());
            t.setName("MyThread:"+i);
            t.start();
        }
        int threadCount = 0;
        Set<Thread> threadSet = Thread.getAllStackTraces().keySet();
        for ( Thread t : threadSet){
            if ( t.getThreadGroup() == Thread.currentThread().getThreadGroup()){
                System.out.println("Thread :"+t+":"+"state:"+t.getState());
                ++threadCount;
            }
        }
        System.out.println("Thread count started by Main thread:"+threadCount);
    }
}

class MyThread implements Runnable{
    public void run(){
        try{
            Thread.sleep(2000);
        }catch(Exception err){
            err.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Output:

java ThreadStatus

Thread :Thread[MyThread:0,5,main]:state:TIMED_WAITING
Thread :Thread[main,5,main]:state:RUNNABLE
Thread :Thread[MyThread:1,5,main]:state:TIMED_WAITING
Thread :Thread[MyThread:4,5,main]:state:TIMED_WAITING
Thread :Thread[MyThread:2,5,main]:state:TIMED_WAITING
Thread :Thread[MyThread:3,5,main]:state:TIMED_WAITING
Thread count started by Main thread:6

If you remove below condition

if ( t.getThreadGroup() == Thread.currentThread().getThreadGroup())

You will get below threads in output too, which have been started by system.

Reference Handler, Signal Dispatcher,Attach Listener and Finalizer.

Answer 3

Using Linux Top command

top -H -p (process id)

you could get process id of one program by this method :

ps aux | grep (your program name)

for example :

ps aux | grep user.py

Answer 4

ManagementFactory.getThreadMXBean().getThreadCount() doesn't limit itself to thread groups as Thread.activeCount() does.

Answer 5

java.lang.Thread.activeCount()

It will return the number of active threads in the current thread's thread group.

docs: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Thread.html#activeCount()

Answer 6

Get number of threads using jstack

jstack <PID> | grep 'java.lang.Thread.State' | wc -l

The result of the above code is quite different from top -H -p <PID> or ps -o nlwp <PID> because jstack gets only threads from created by the application.

In other words, jstack will not get GC threads