What influences young generation pause times?

[Raman Gupta]

On 04/22/2010 02:22 AM, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
> On 4/21/10 4:19 PM, Raman Gupta wrote:
>> I am not suggesting any new API at this time -- I mentioned it only as
>> a pie-in-the-sky kind of thing.
>>
>> My current suggestion is simply to gate System.gc() (or actually
>> Runtime.gc() I guess) with a new RuntimePermission. Without the
>> appropriate permission granted, gc() would simply be a no-op.
>
> I know very little about RuntimePermission. Who needs to be involved in
> creating
> a new one?

It seems the core libraries group is responsible for anything in 
java.lang, which both SecurityManager and RuntimePermission are:

http://openjdk.java.net/groups/core-libs/

So presumably both the GC group and the core libraries group would 
have to be ok with this change. If you guys are ok with this in 
principle, I can coordinate getting approval from the core-libs group 
via their mailing list. I would also need a sponsor -- I don't know if 
they would be from gc-dev or core-libs or both.

Documentation like this one would have to be updated as well -- if 
this is part of the JDK source then that is easy enough:

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/security/permissions.html

Cheers,
Raman