Saturday, 29 June 2024

How can I interpret the thread state? or What are different state of thread in SAP HANA database ?

 In SAP HANA, threads can be in various states, each indicating a different stage of their lifecycle or activity type. Understanding these thread states is crucial for diagnosing performance issues and optimizing system performance. 



Here are the different thread states in SAP HANA:

 

 

 

Thread state

Area

Details

Barrier Wait

Lock 

Barrier wait

ConditionalVariable Wait

Lock 

Mainly record and table lock waits, but also some internal locks

ConditionalVar Wait

ExclusiveLock Enter

Lock

Exclusive read / write lock waits

Futex Wait

Lock

Futex lock wait

Inactive

Idle

Idle thread

IntentLock Enter

Lock

Intentional read / write lock waits

IO Wait

I/O

Disk I/O wait (e.g. during column load or hybrid LOB access)

Job Exec Waiting

Idle

Waiting for a JobWorker thread executing the actual work

Joining

Idle

Joining of execution context of another thread, i.e. waiting for the termination of the other thread

Mutex Wait

Lock

Mutex lock waits

Network Connect

Network

Network I/O between SAP HANA nodes or services, timeouts can be configured with client properties like connectTimeout and nodeConnectTimeout (SAP Note 2186744)

Network Poll

Network

Network I/O between SAP HANA nodes or services

Network Read

Network

Network I/O read between SAP HANA nodes or services

Network Write

Network

Network I/O write between SAP HANA nodes or services

Resource Load Wait

I/O

Disk I/O wait (e.g. during undo file load, DataAccess::UndoFileAnchor::allocateFile)

Running

SQL

Request execution, typically CPU consumption

Semaphore Wait

Lock

Semaphore lock waits

SharedLock Enter

Lock

Shared read / write lock waits

Sleeping

Lock

Waiting for a lock

Speculative Lock Retry backoff

Lock

Transactional memory lock (back-off waiting on transaction retry)

Speculative Lock Wait for fallback

Lock

Transactional memory lock state (waiting on fallback lock)

TimestampLatch Wait

Lock

Waiting for a timestamp latch

3rd party Thread

Unknown

State of Native threads created outside of the standard SAP HANA context can't be determined and so they are displayed as '3rd party Thread' (SAP HANA >= 2.00.059.06, >= 2.00.065).

 

THREAD_DETAIL may contain related call stack details


                                                                                                                       

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