"Disabling Explicit GC" message in gc log with G1 collector

Tony Printezis tony.printezis at oracle.com
Wed Apr 14 19:33:57 UTC 2010


And of course the return is important... duh!

Andreas Kohn wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 15:25 -0400, Tony Printezis wrote:
>   
>> PS This is the culprit, right?
>>     
>
> Yes. I wasn't sure whether the return there is important, so locally i
> only killed the print() to be safe :)
>
> Thanks for picking this up!
>
> --
> Andreas
>
>   
>> --- a/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/g1/g1CollectedHeap.cpp
>> +++ b/src/share/vm/gc_implementation/g1/g1CollectedHeap.cpp
>> @@ -912,11 +912,6 @@
>>      Universe::print_heap_before_gc();
>>    }
>>  
>> -  if (full && DisableExplicitGC) {
>> -    gclog_or_tty->print("\n\n\nDisabling Explicit GC\n\n\n");
>> -    return;
>> -  }
>> -
>>    assert(SafepointSynchronize::is_at_safepoint(), "should be at 
>> safepoint");
>>    assert(Thread::current() == VMThread::vm_thread(), "should be in vm 
>> thread");
>>  
>>
>>
>> Tony Printezis wrote:
>>     
>>> Andreas,
>>>
>>> Thanks for bringing this up. It's most likely debugging code that we 
>>> accidentally failed to remove. Apologies. I'll  remove it piggy-backed 
>>> on my next push.
>>>
>>> Tony
>>>
>>> Andreas Kohn wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> while playing with the G1 collector I noticed that our gc logs are now
>>>> filled with a "Disabling Explicit GC" message repeating quite often.
>>>>
>>>> This seems to be coming from g1CollectedHeap.cpp
>>>> G1CollectedHeap::do_collection().
>>>>
>>>> We have -XX:+DisableExplicitGC and -Xloggc enabled by default, so in a
>>>> way this is pretty much expected.
>>>> I've now removed the print statement there, so that the gc log becomes a
>>>> bit more readable. Was there a reason that G1 logs this condition?
>>>> Regards,
>>>> -- 
>>>> Andreas
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>         
>
>   



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