Tuning advice

Y Srinivas Ramakrishna Y.S.Ramakrishna at Sun.COM
Wed Mar 5 19:48:44 UTC 2008


Also have you tried -server (instead of the client jvm you are using) to
see if & by how much it improves performance of the application? (once
you've eliminated the RMI-induced GC's as stated below).

-- ramki

----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Printezis <tony.printezis at sun.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 11:41 am
Subject: Re: Tuning advice
To: Jon Masamitsu <Jon.Masamitsu at Sun.COM>
Cc: hotspot-gc-use at openjdk.java.net, "Shaffer, Kurt" <Kurt_Shaffer at steris.com>


> Kurt,
> 
> Do you use RMI? By default, RMI calls Full GC every 60 seconds for the 
> 
> correct operation of its distributed GC algorithm. The default 
> behavior 
> has been changed in 6.0 to be something less frequent (once an hour I 
> 
> believe...).
> 
> Tony
> 
> Jon Masamitsu wrote:
> > Kurt,
> >
> > The full GC's in the log fragment that you sent are at
> > very regular intervals so there might be something
> > in the system that is invoking System.gc().  Full
> > GC's normally happen when the heap is full and
> > the logs show that the heap is not yet full when
> > the full GC's happen.  If the frequency of the full
> > GC's is a problem, you can use -XX:+DisableExplicitGC
> > to effectively turn off System.gc().
> >
> > Other than that, it does not look like GC is a problem.  The
> > full GC's are all under 6 seconds and are about 60 seconds
> > apart so I don't see how that can be causing the rendering
> > of a page to take 40 seconds.  Are there other parts of the
> > gc log that show longer and/or more frequent GC pauses?
> >
> > Jon
> >
> > Shaffer, Kurt wrote:
> >   
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >> We are looking for some tuning recommendations for the following 
> >> environment.  I am not very familiar with Java so I am seeking any 
> help.
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >>     
> >>>  4 cpus (Ultra Sparc III 900MHz) / 8GB memory
> >>>       
> >>>  java version "1.4.2_13"
> >>>       
> >>>  Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_13-b06)
> >>>       
> >>>  Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_13-b06, mixed mode)
> >>>       
> >>>    <Property name="wt.manager.cmd.MethodServer.java.command"
> >>>       
> >>>  overridable="true" value="$(wt.java.cmd.quoted) -server -classpath
> >>>       
> >>>  $(wt.java.clas
> >>>       
> >>>  spath.quoted) -Djava.protocol.handler.pkgs\=HTTPClient
> >>>       
> >>>  -DHTTPClient.disableKeepAlives\=true
> >>>       
> >>>  -DHTTPClient.dontChunkRequests\=true -Xss2M -Xms51
> >>>       
> >>>  2m -Xmx1024m -noverify -verbose:gc -XX:+UseParallelGC
> >>>       
> >>>  -XX:ParallelGCThreads=20 -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -XX:+PrintGCDetails
> >>>       
> >>>  -Xloggc:$(wt.logs.di
> >>>       
> >>>  r)$(dir.sep)ms_gc.log wt.method.MethodServerMain"/>
> >>>       
> >>>  Application is PTC Windchill
> >>>       
> >>>  We have seen very slow response times from the users standpoint, 
> when
> >>>       
> >>>  they login it takes up to 15 seconds to render the display, when 
> they
> >>>       
> >>>  are navigating through different views in their browser it can 
> take 40
> >>>       
> >>>  seconds or longer to display pages.
> >>>       
> >> 63153.891: [GC 314184K->242537K(470016K), 0.5394510 secs]
> >>
> >> 63154.431: [Full GC 242537K->222908K(470464K), 4.3961010 secs]
> >>
> >> 63218.867: [GC 237602K->265484K(470464K), 0.4835425 secs]
> >>
> >> 63219.351: [Full GC 265484K->219722K(468800K), 4.0777246 secs]
> >>
> >> 63229.962: [GC 283466K->275130K(470016K), 0.9633742 secs]
> >>
> >> 63246.178: [GC 296442K->232743K(470016K), 0.2712703 secs]
> >>
> >> 63250.526: [GC 298919K->284345K(474432K), 0.6691910 secs]
> >>
> >> 63253.376: [GC 307833K->234235K(474432K), 0.7393747 secs]
> >>
> >> 63259.981: [GC 309243K->288777K(475584K), 0.7275010 secs]
> >>
> >> 63262.366: [GC 324297K->243675K(475584K), 0.5750282 secs]
> >>
> >> 63267.115: [GC 320987K->275409K(475712K), 1.0370391 secs]
> >>
> >> 63270.833: [GC 331025K->248161K(475712K), 0.8789762 secs]
> >>
> >> 63274.475: [GC 325729K->263489K(500032K), 1.6077160 secs]
> >>
> >> 63280.994: [GC 341057K->263713K(500032K), 0.9178316 secs]
> >>
> >> 63283.436: [GC 280071K->256830K(534464K), 0.6641916 secs]
> >>
> >> 63284.101: [Full GC 256830K->214330K(542528K), 4.6351180 secs]
> >>
> >> 63305.164: [GC 349882K->281490K(542528K), 0.6127869 secs]
> >>
> >> 63316.432: [GC 376658K->251450K(539136K), 1.0353315 secs]
> >>
> >> 63348.746: [GC 309133K->310170K(539136K), 0.3874349 secs]
> >>
> >> 63349.134: [Full GC 310170K->194499K(470208K), 4.9789538 secs]
> >>
> >> 63370.780: [GC 261059K->241509K(470784K), 0.4214626 secs]
> >>
> >> 63374.528: [GC 276453K->215817K(470784K), 0.8574863 secs]
> >>
> >> 63381.942: [GC 283529K->246533K(474816K), 0.6949210 secs]
> >>
> >> 63389.788: [GC 285893K->216402K(474816K), 1.3839849 secs]
> >>
> >> 63414.126: [GC 237126K->244639K(477696K), 0.6417762 secs]
> >>
> >> 63414.768: [Full GC 244639K->212594K(477696K), 4.6969125 secs]
> >>
> >> 63437.799: [GC 294130K->269346K(477760K), 0.5160500 secs]
> >>
> >> 63441.657: [GC 306082K->225578K(477760K), 0.3883250 secs]
> >>
> >> 63454.008: [GC 307242K->279893K(480256K), 0.4979514 secs]
> >>
> >> 63458.126: [GC 314261K->232665K(480256K), 0.5394576 secs]
> >>
> >> 63470.586: [GC 319321K->283449K(484096K), 0.6432362 secs]
> >>
> >> 63473.498: [GC 320953K->237395K(484096K), 0.2825034 secs]
> >>
> >> 63479.613: [GC 299104K->294563K(484096K), 0.5962983 secs]
> >>
> >> 63480.210: [Full GC 294563K->220268K(483584K), 5.8936777 secs]
> >>
> >> 63524.720: [GC 313580K->295967K(483904K), 0.7195508 secs]
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >> PrintGCStats output
> >>
> >> what         count       total      mean      max   stddev
> >>
> >> gen0(s)       1282     776.553   0.60574    3.605   0.3765
> >>
> >> gen1t(s)       823    1643.837   1.99737   11.139   1.0934
> >>
> >> GC(s)         2105    2420.391   1.14983   11.139   1.0074
> >>
> >> alloc(MB)     1282  -84202.223  -65.68036  169.752  101.4710
> >>
> >> promo(MB)     1230  -86070.940  -69.97637  333.249  103.2167
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> >> alloc/elapsed_time    = -84202.223 MB /  56876.807 s  =  -1.480 MB/s
> >>
> >> alloc/tot_cpu_time    = -84202.223 MB / 227507.228 s  =  -0.370 MB/s
> >>
> >> alloc/mut_cpu_time    = -84202.223 MB / 217825.665 s  =  -0.387 MB/s
> >>
> >> promo/elapsed_time    = -86070.940 MB /  56876.807 s  =  -1.513 MB/s
> >>
> >> promo/gc0_time        = -86070.940 MB /      0.000 s  =   0.000 MB/s
> >>
> >> gc_seq_load           =   9681.563 s  / 227507.228 s  =   4.255%
> >>
> >> gc_conc_load          =      0.000 s  / 227507.228 s  =   0.000%
> >>
> >> gc_tot_load           =   9681.563 s  / 227507.228 s  =   4.255%
> >>
> >>     
> >>>  Thankx
> >>>       
> >>  
> >>
> >> /Kurt Shaffer/
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