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

John Cuthbertson john.cuthbertson at oracle.com
Tue Jan 15 17:42:39 UTC 2013


Hi Kirk,

I know you haven't responded to me directly but I did your email with 
interest and cited it in my reply to Charlie Hunt.

On 1/12/2013 4:39 AM, Kirk Pepperdine wrote:
> Hi Charlie,
>
> In this case I would have to say that having more frequent GCs that succeed is much better than evacuation failures. Also having different values for different heap sizes is really confusing. Is it really necessary to have different percentages for different heap sizes and is so is there a known gradient for correlating the size vs percent?
>

Unless I hear any objections, I'll apply the new young gen bounds to all 
heap sizes.

JohnC



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