Why Does My Service’s CPU Spike After Restart? Deep Dive into Thread Bottlenecks and JIT Compilation
This article analyzes the CPU spikes that occur within minutes after a Java service restart, explains how excessive Runnable threads, frequent context switches, and JIT compiler activity cause the overload, and presents step‑by‑step diagnostics and mitigation strategies such as traffic greying, cache pre‑warming, request‑parameter cleanup, and JVM warm‑up.
