how to know jvm is stopping the world?

[Srinivas Ramakrishna]

I agree. However, a quick remark in case one of your remarks below is
misunderstood ....

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Charles K Pepperdine <kirk at kodewerk.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry but this thread looks like a train wreak about to happen with
> everyone shouting.. FASTER... FASTER..... FASTER!!!! :-)
>
> First a call to System.gc() will *always* result in a Full GC being
> executed.
>

Right about that. However, that GC need not be fully stop-world. E.g. with
the concurrent collectors and -XX:+ExplicitGCInvokesConcurrent
the call will kick off a concurrent GC cycle. The caller will return when
the concurrent cycle completes.

-- ramki

The call to System.gc() is synchronized which means that is multiple
> threads call it, the will be blocked waiting for the previous call complete.
> Second, hooking things up to the JVMPI can result in a much slower
> runtime, it can alter/prevent future optimizations.
>
> IMHO, what is really needed here is an understanding of *why* your
> applications transactional rates are so slow and *why* you're having
> difficulties with GC. IME, many of the problems you describe are more
> easily addressable with memory tuning. This goes beyond just a technical
> tuning of the JVM. It will involve analyzing how your application uses (and
> in this case abuses) memory. Try object creation statistics via NetBeans
> memory profiler.. or if you like to spend money to get the same
> information, get a copy of YourKit (a great tool that does do a wee bit
> more than NB profiler). Worst you could do it force a heap dump (jmap) on
> your production machine and do a census of what's in it.
>
> Finally, technical tuning requires that you look at GC logs. I collect GC
> logs as a hobby so if you happen to produce one from your production system
> (negligible performance penalty to turn on gc logging) send it along and
> I'm happy to take a look let you know what I see.
>
> Kind regards,
> Kirk Pepperdine
>
>
> On Dec 13, 2011, at 8:10 AM, Li Li wrote:
>
> thanks.
> is there any resources about writing tools communicating with JVM using
> JVMTI?
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Krystal Mok <rednaxelafx at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> The GC start/end events in JVMTI are available since a long time ago. You
>> can use it in JDK 6 right now. [1] And in OpenJDK 7, too.
>>
>> The problem (for you) is this interface does not allow you to execute any
>> Java code in the event callback. You'll need make some non-Java interface
>> in your dispatcher so that this notification can ultimately propagate from
>> the JVM in full GC to your dispatcher.
>>
>> - Kris
>>
>> [1]:
>> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/platform/jvmti/jvmti.html#GarbageCollectionStart
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Li Li <fancyerii at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> That's what I want.
>>> btw, this feature is only available in sun jdk7?
>>> does it exist in openjdk7?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Stefan Karlsson <
>>> stefan.karlsson at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 12/11/2011 07:31 AM, Li Li 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<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.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You could probably use JVMTI. See: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/**
>>>> 7/docs/platform/jvmti/jvmti.**html#GarbageCollectionStart<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/platform/jvmti/jvmti.html#GarbageCollectionStart>
>>>>
>>>> StefanK
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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