VM warning: Performance bug

[Karen Kinnear]

Actually I am working on a fix for it - see 7105270.

It is "benign" in the sense of correct operation. However, we have an internal customer who has
seen measurable performance loss when they get this warning. So I am working on resizing the
system dictionary if the lookups take "too long".

If you have a way to duplicate it that doesn't require a database - that would make it easier for
me to debug.

thanks,
Karen

On Dec 15, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Tom Rodriguez wrote:

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> On Dec 15, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Kelly O'Hair wrote:
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>> Anyone seen this message before:
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>> OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: Performance bug: SystemDictionary lookup_count=22915 lookup_length=24212 average=1.056600 load=0.528246
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>> Maybe from jdk7u2?
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> I think it's fairly benign.  It just means that the hashtable for the SystemDictionary isn't performing quite as well as we'd like.  It's a little hard to evaluate without knowing how many entries are in the table.  I would assume that it just has a lot of classes loaded.  It's a somewhat useless message but it's debug only so I guess I wouldn't worry about it.
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> tom
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>> -kto
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