RFR(XS): 8001425: G1: Change the default values for certain G1 specific flags

[Bernd Eckenfels]

Hello,

I know this is G1 ralted, but I just wanted to comment on a different  
approach.

Am 12.01.2013, 13:39 Uhr, schrieb Kirk Pepperdine <kirk at kodewerk.com>:

> I decided to try G1 because I couldn't get a generational Eden to be as  
> small as I needed to ensure frequent enough young gen collections while  
> maintaining large enough survivor spaces to capture short lived objects.

In this case I would shoot for a small YG with TenuringThreshold of 0 or 1  
resulting in a collection frequency of a few seconds. I cant imagine in a  
tight processing loop there are objects which are longer lived than one YG  
cycle. But even if there are, they spill over in the CMS where they are  
processed in the background.

Having smaller survivors is essential in that configuration as they will  
affect the STW pause times of the CMS to the largest degree.

> There was another issue in that the deployment environment didn't leave  
> me feeling wonderful about deploying a right sized (small) heap. What I  
> was looking to do was deploy with a large heap that behaved right sized  
> in order to avoid possible OOMEs. The box has 24 cores and this is a  
> perfect case for iCMS as the larger heap caused pause times to creep up  
> until a CMS cycle was triggered.. this doesn't happen with iCMS

You dont need iCMS for that, just use a small initiating occupancy and  
occupancy only. For example if the applications steady size is 10%, use  
this as the occupancy. You could even limit the degree of parallelity for  
the CMS in that case, so it will not affect your time critical calculation  
threads so much.


Gruss
Bernd