Java TM platform SE Binary consuming 99% CPU - bringing Jenkins to halt

Using Jenkins
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Since a couple of weeks, I started to notice that my jenkins get hanged and Java SE binary consumption always going up to 95-98%. I updated the OPNJdk to 17 as I thougt old java might be the cause, it became worst.
This is becoming very annoying as I need to restart jenkins every 10-15 minutes as it gets blocked and I need to restart it to be able to work with. Can you please let me know what config needs to be changed or anything to update? Thanks in advance

Jenkins setup:

Jenkins: 2.436
OS: Windows Server 2019 - 10.0
Java: 11.0.18 - Oracle Corporation (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM)
---
ace-editor:1.1
active-directory:2.34
adoptopenjdk:1.5
all-changes:1.5
analysis-core:1.95
ansible:240.vc26740a_625c0
ant:487.vd79d090d4ea_e
antisamy-markup-formatter:159.v25b_c67cd35fb_
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artifactdeployer:1.3
audit-trail:333.vb_e1b_b_0f1238c
audit2db:0.5
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aws-java-sdk-codebuild:1.12.447-382.vda_68e2007233
aws-java-sdk-ec2:1.12.447-382.vda_68e2007233
aws-java-sdk-ecr:1.12.447-382.vda_68e2007233
aws-java-sdk-ecs:1.12.447-382.vda_68e2007233
aws-java-sdk-efs:1.12.447-382.vda_68e2007233
aws-java-sdk-elasticbeanstalk:1.12.447-382.vda_68e2007233
aws-java-sdk-iam:1.12.447-382.vda_68e2007233
aws-java-sdk-kinesis:1.12.447-382.vda_68e2007233
aws-java-sdk-logs:1.12.447-382.vda_68e2007233
aws-java-sdk-minimal:1.12.447-382.vda_68e2007233
aws-java-sdk-sns:1.12.447-382.vda_68e2007233
aws-java-sdk-sqs:1.12.447-382.vda_68e2007233
aws-java-sdk-ssm:1.12.447-382.vda_68e2007233
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awseb-deployment-plugin:0.3.21
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azure-ad:433.v1982e2b_b_4a_fe
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azure-credentials:293.vb_d506148f506
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blueocean-commons:1.27.5.1
blueocean-config:1.27.5.1
blueocean-core-js:1.27.5.1
blueocean-dashboard:1.27.5.1
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blueocean-personalization:1.27.5.1
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Welcome back @eliassal. :wave:

Would you have any logs to share?

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Ancillary to the CPU load, using an Oracle JDK to run Jenkins is likely a violation of Oracle’s license agreement (or an expensive proposition), as noted in this thread. You should consider an OpenJDK (hotspot) alternative

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Hi and thanks, yes, after posting this thread I noticed that jenkins, even after the openjdk 17 install did not change and kept using version 11. I opened the file jenkins.xml and noticed that I had
<executable>C:\Program Files\....\jdk-11\bin\java</executable>.
I thought that modifying the value for JAVA_HOME to 17 will do the job which was not the case. I replaced it with
<executable>C:\Program Files\Eclipse Adoptium\jdk-17.0.9.9-hotspot\bin\java</executable>
, since that time CPU consumption is normal.
So now the question why jenkins consider config in jenkins.xml whereas from installation instructions I understand that it looks for java_home.

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With the new JDK, C:\Program Files\Eclipse Adoptium\jdk-17.0.9.9-hotspot\bin\java, I am having the same behaviore, binaries shooting CPU 98%
@poddingue which log files you need?

when Java Binaris is about constant 97%%

Inside browser, jenkins fails to load the page

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And now, since 10 minutes whatever link I click I get a blank page. I needed to restart jenkins service to be able to acces it

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And here is the output of the script after JDK change

Jenkins: 2.436
OS: Windows Server 2019 - 10.0
Java: 17.0.9 - Eclipse Adoptium (OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM)
---
active-directory:2.34
adoptopenjdk:1.5
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How much memory do you give to your Jenkins?

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It is VM with 4G of RAM and 2 CPUs

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are you using -Xmx and -Xms java startup options?
You should check the jenkins logs, as you browser failed to load the page, there must be something in the logs.
When you see high CPU usage, take a threaddump of your java process and analyze it.

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@mawinter69 where can I find those -Xmx and -Xms startup options?

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if you don’t know this then probably you’re not using them. They should probably be part of the xml you use to start jenkins.
If your system is short on memory the jvm might spend a lot of time with garbage collection

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I double-checked jenkinsxml, I have this
<arguments>-Xrs -Xmx256m -Dhudson.lifecycle=hudson.lifecycle.WindowsServiceLifecycle -jar "%BASE%\jenkins.war" --httpPort=8080 --webroot="%BASE%\war"</arguments>

so those arguments might be the issue?

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yes you give your vm 4 GiB memory but your jvm only gets 256m. Set it to -Xmx3g (3GiB, leave a bit to the other processes inside the container).

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Yes, you are correct, since I updated -Xmx the CPU consumption disappeared, thanks for your help