Free ratio based heap shrinking in the parallel collector

[Hiroshi Yamauchi]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Jon Masamitsu <Jon.Masamitsu at sun.com>wrote:

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> On Mar 10, 2010, at 4:04 PM, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
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>  Hiroshi,
>>
>> Have you signed a contributor agreement?  The gentleman
>> who used to take care of those isn't in the group any longer
>> and I'll have to go hunt it down before I look at the
>> code.
>>
>
> I got confirmation that you're eligible to contribute.


Good.


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>
>
>> I'm going to be out of the office doing a
>> presentation tomorrow so won't be able to pursue
>> this until Friday at the earliest.
>>
>> But just in general when UseAdativeSizePolicy is
>> off the UseParallelGC collector doesn't do any resizing.
>> Can you just make this the sizing policy when
>> UseAdativeSizePolicy is off (instead of adding the
>> new flags)?
>>
>
> Sorry, I misread your mail.  I can see the reason for the
> new flags.   I'll take a look at the  patch in the next
> couple of days.


No problem.

Thanks,
Hiroshi


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>> Jon
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>> On 03/10/10 15:17, Hiroshi Yamauchi wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>> I'd like to have this patch
>>>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rasbold/69XXXXX/webrev.00/<http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Erasbold/69XXXXX/webrev.00/>
>>> contributed, if appropriate.
>>> It implements a simple heap shrinking logic based on the free ratio
>>> (MaxHeapFreeRatio) in the parallel collector. The way it works is the
>>> following: If the free ratio, (1.0 - <used> / <capacity>) * 100 >
>>> MaxHeapFreeRatio, this logic kicks in. Otherwise, the (default) adaptive
>>> size policy runs the show (as before). This feature is turned off by
>>> default. There are two new flags to turn it on:
>>>  UseFreeRatioForParallelGC - this enables it.
>>>  UseFreeRatioOnlyInSystemGCForParallelGC - this enables it only in
>>> explicit System.gc() calls. This is more useful in apps that call
>>> System.gc() when it's idle and don't want shrinking to happen at all other
>>> times.
>>> In our tests, it appears to work well in a simple test and to help a real
>>> app reduce its footprint (RSS) when it's idle.
>>> Thanks to Chuck Rasbold who uploaded the webrev on my behalf.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Hiroshi
>>>
>>
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