diff --git a/dd-java-agent/agent-bootstrap/src/main/java/datadog/trace/bootstrap/Agent.java b/dd-java-agent/agent-bootstrap/src/main/java/datadog/trace/bootstrap/Agent.java
index 48557510aa7..5967bf705b5 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/agent-bootstrap/src/main/java/datadog/trace/bootstrap/Agent.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/agent-bootstrap/src/main/java/datadog/trace/bootstrap/Agent.java
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.net.URL;
+import java.nio.file.FileSystems;
 import java.security.CodeSource;
 import java.util.EnumSet;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
@@ -290,6 +291,12 @@ public static void start(
       startCwsAgent();
     }
 
+    // To workaround JDK-8345810, we want to trigger loading/initializing of pthread library on
+    // main thread (Linux only)
+    if (OperatingSystem.isLinux()) {
+      FileSystems.getDefault();
+    }
+
     /*
      * Force the task scheduler init early. The exception profiling instrumentation may get in way of the initialization
      * when it will happen after the class transformers were added.