JVM Thread CPU details using PS and LWP

First, capture a threaddump from your process (jvisualvm, kill -3 or jstack should do the trick).

At the same time, get a list of the LWP threads from PS for your process

ps -eLo pid,lwp,nlwp,ruser,pcpu,stime,etime,args -p {PID} >lwpthread.txt

Once you have it, sort by CPU utilization and tail the list to get the worst four offenders:

cat lwpthread.txt |sort -n -k 5,5 |tail -n 4 |awk '{print $2}' |xargs

Now take the resulting list and throw it in a loop and convert them to hex (note, it must be lowercase!):

{ for i in 1882 4709 19306 20088 ; do echo "obase=16; $i"|bc | awk '{print tolower($0)}'; done ; } |xargs

which produces our nids, which we can grep out of the thread dump:

grep '75a\|1265\|4b6a\|4e78' threads2.txt  -A 4

and will show you the top 4 threads that are chomping away at your CPU.