Why does the message "The Critical Analyzer detected slow paths on the broker" mean in Artemis broker? - activemq-artemis

Question

Setup: I have an artemis broker HA cluster with 3 brokers. The replication policy is replication. Each broker is running in its own VM.
Problem: When I leave my brokers running for long time, usually after 5-6 hours, I get the below error.
2022-11-21 21:32:37,902 WARN
[org.apache.activemq.artemis.utils.critical.CriticalMeasure] Component
org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.persistence.impl.journal.JournalStorageManager
is expired on path 0 2022-11-21 21:32:37,902 INFO
[org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server] AMQ224107: The Critical
Analyzer detected slow paths on the broker. It is recommended that
you enable trace logs on org.apache.activemq.artemis.utils.critical
while you troubleshoot this issue. You should disable the trace logs
when you have finished troubleshooting. 2022-11-21 21:32:37,902 ERROR
[org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server] AMQ224079: The process for
the virtual machine will be killed, as component
org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.persistence.impl.journal.JournalStorageManager#46d59067
is not responsive 2022-11-21 21:32:37,969 WARN
[org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server] AMQ222199: Thread dump:
******************************************************************************* Complete Thread dump "Thread-517
(ActiveMQ-IO-server-org.apache.activemq.artemis.core.server.impl.ActiveMQServerImpl$7#437da279)"
Id=602 TIMED_WAITING on
java.util.concurrent.SynchronousQueue$TransferStack#75f49105
at sun.misc.Unsafe.park(Native Method)
- waiting on java.util.concurrent.SynchronousQueue$TransferStack#75f49105
at java.util.concurrent.locks.LockSupport.parkNanos(LockSupport.java:215)
at java.util.concurrent.SynchronousQueue$TransferStack.awaitFulfill(SynchronousQueue.java:460)
at java.util.concurrent.SynchronousQueue$TransferStack.transfer(SynchronousQueue.java:362)
at java.util.concurrent.SynchronousQueue.poll(SynchronousQueue.java:941)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.getTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1073)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1134)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at org.apache.activemq.artemis.utils.ActiveMQThreadFactory$1.run(ActiveMQThreadFactory.java:118)
What does this really mean? I understand that the critical analyzer sees an error and it halts the broker but what is causing this error?

Answer 1

You may take a look at the documentation. Basically you are experiencing some issue tat the broker detects and it shuts down before it becomes too irresponsive. Setting the policy to LOG you might get more clues on the issue.