Fwd: how to know jvm is stopping the world?

[Li Li]

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From: Krystal Mok <rednaxelafx at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 5:53 PM
Subject: Re: how to know jvm is stopping the world?
To: Li Li <fancyerii at gmail.com>


HI,

You're probably looking in the wrong direction. When the JVM
"stops-the-world", it stops the world -- all Java threads (or "mutators")
are suspended. There's no way for you to execute any Java code during that
period.
HotSpot VM uses a "safepoint" mechanism to stop-the-world. You can get
safepoint stats with -XX:+PrintSafepointStatistics.

There's an alternative that might help. Try GC notification with JMX [1].
Setup a notification threshold, and when the heap usage crosses the
threshold, you'll get a notification. Put the load balancing logic in the
callback. Even though this is different from "a notification of
stop-the-world pause", it might work for you.

There's a GC notification mechanism in .NET that might have been closer to
what you wanted [2].

- Kris

[1]:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/management/MemoryMXBean.html
[2]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc713687.aspx

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Li Li <fancyerii at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi,
>     In our application of full text searching with lucene and solr. we
> will give jvm about 25GB memory. we use CMS as old generation garbage
> collector. But the jvm sometimes can't do anything. So our clients complain
> that the connection is time out. we find the reason is the jvm is doing
> full gc and it will stop service for about 1-3 seconds.
>     I know that this situation is inevitable when using CMS collector. but
> we have more than one searching machines, so if I know jvm is doing full
> gc(specially stop the world), I can send requests to other machines. But
> the question now is that jvm don't provide an api for that. I think it's
> not very difficult(for guys developing hotspot, but is in deed difficult
> for me ). So I want your help.
>     The first question is where is the position of CMS full gc.
>     from http://blogs.oracle.com/jonthecollector/entry/did_you_know
>     there are many steps:
>       1. STW initial mark
>       2. Concurrent marking
>       3. Concurrent precleaning
>       4. STW remark
>       5. Concurrent sweeping
>       6. Concurrent reset
>     there are 2 stop the world stages. I want to know the line number(or
> functions) of this stages. so I can tell java program that jvm now is doing
> full gc.
>      The second is that how to communicate between jvm and java program?
> My expected thing is like :
>      //java program
>      if(System.isStopTheWolrd()){
>            //system is busy, tell the dispatch node that don't send
> request to me
>      }else{
>            do service;
>      }
>      I have no experience in jvm developing. jvm is implemented in c and
> jni is the interface between them. is there any other method that jvm can
> achieve this? obviously, it can extend System class and add a static method
> named isStopTheWorld(). Could some one tell me how to do this in details?
> Thank you very much.
>
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