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What is Daemon thread?

Shiva Sankhar
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Joined: Mar 19, 2009
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Hi,

What is Daemon thread?

( I am not understanding this concept in threads)

Appreciate your valuable replies.

Madhan Sundararajan Devaki
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Joined: Mar 18, 2011
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Daemon threads are least privileged threads, that can be killed without mercy by the JVM when the application stops or there is no resource such as memory.


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Satya Maheshwari
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Joined: Jan 01, 2007
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You may like to see: http://www.roseindia.net/java/thread/daemon-threads.shtml


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I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
 
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