Good benchmarks for testing GC performance/scalability

Azeem Jiva azeem.jiva at oracle.com
Tue Jun 12 06:51:19 UTC 2012


Sorry, I wrote "slightly different ways", I meant to just say "different"

Azeem Jiva
@javawithjiva


On 06/12/2012 01:47 AM, Azeem Jiva wrote:
> Just an FYI, SPECjbb2012 is still under development.  Release date is 
> later this year.  Even though both benchmarks are named "JBB" they are 
> vastly different and are not comparable.  They both test business 
> logic, albeit in slightly different ways.   SPECjbb2012 has an SLA 
> requirement that SPECjbb2005 doesn't and the code for SPECjbb2012 is 
> written from the ground up and shares nothing with SPECjbb2005.
> Azeem Jiva
> @javawithjiva
>
> On 06/12/2012 01:01 AM, Lokesh Gidra wrote:
>> Actually i have tried SPECjvm2008 but even there benchmarks do not 
>> have large heap requirements.
>>
>> Is it worth to make both SPECjbb2012 and SPECjbb2005 tests or the 
>> former one covers the later?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Lokesh
>>
>> Igor Veresov <iggy.veresov at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If you have access to SPEC benchmarks,  SPECjbb2012 and SPECjvm2008 
>> are worth trying too. They're all multithreaded and in many instances 
>> would benefit from memory placement opts.
>>
>> igor
>>
>> On Jun 11, 2012, at 7:39 PM, Lokesh Gidra wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am making some NUMA related optimizations to the parallelScavenge 
>>> GC. And I want to test the performance on NUMA multo-core server 
>>> with some multi-threaded benchmarks with multi-GB heap requirements. 
>>> I have tried DaCapo but its heap requirements are pretty small. I 
>>> know of SPECjbb2055, but nothing other than that. Can someone please 
>>> suggest me some benchmarks for this purpose.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Lokesh
>>
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