Eden space is not empty after a Full GC?

[Jon Masamitsu]

A perhaps more general case (i.e., no necessarily involving large objects)
is one where all the live data does not fit into the old generation.  A full
collection will attempt to compact the young generation into the old
generation.  If the old generation becomes full during the compaction,
the remaining live data in the young generation will be compacted
into the young generation.

Neo Jia wrote:

> On 5/14/07, Y Srinivas Ramakrishna <Y.S.Ramakrishna at sun.com> wrote:
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>> Neo Jia wrote On 05/14/07 09:00 AM,:
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>> > hi,
>> >
>> > I just found that for the generational mark-sweep garbage collector,
>> > after a full GC, the eden space may not be empty.
>>
>> That would usually be the case because of  bin-packing
>> issues with the sliding compaction that might prevent a large
>> object in Eden from being "slid" into the available space
>> in old gen or in the survivor space. It'll usually be the case
>> then that your are running with memory quite tight (or
>> with a huge Eden and very large objects).
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> Could you point me to the code where the full GC found it cannot slide
> this huge chunk?
>
> Thanks,
> Neo
>
>>
>> Are there other situations where you see a non-empty Eden
>> following a mark-compact full collection?
>>
>> >
>> > Is there any implementation concern for this? Can I force the full GC
>> > to clean the eden space?
>>
>>
>> A full gc would do a mark-compact collection.
>>
>> -- ramki.
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>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Neo
>>
>>
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