CMS vs G1 - Scan RS very long

[Michal Frajt]

Hi all,

After the iCMS got officially deprecated we decided to compare the G1 collector with our best tuned (i)CMS setup. Unfortunately we are not able to make the G1 young collection running any closer to the ParNew. Actually we wanted to compare the G1 concurrent marking STW pauses with the CMS initial-mark and remark STW pauses but already incredibly long running G1 young collections are unacceptable for us.

We were able to recognize that the very long G1 young collections are caused by the scanning remembered sets. There is not much documentation about G1 internals but we were able to understand that the size of the remembered sets is related to the amount of mutating references from old regions (cards) to young regions. Unfortunately all our applications mutate permanently thousands references from old objects to young objects. 

We are testing with the latest OpenJDK7u extended by the 7189971 patch and CMSTriggerInterval implementation. The attached GC log files represent two very equal applications processing very similar data sets, one running the G1, second running the CMS collector. The OpenJDK7u has an extra output of _pending_cards (when G1TraceConcRefinement activated) which somehow relates to the remembered sets size.

Young Comparison (both 128m, survivor ratio 5, max tenuring 15)
CMS - invoked every ~20 sec, avg. stop 60ms 
G1 - invoked every ~16 sec, avg. stop 410ms !!!

It there anything what could help us to reduce the Scan RS time or the G1 is simply not targeted for applications mutating heavily old region objects?

CMS parameters
-Xmx8884m -Xms2048m -XX:NewSize=128m -XX:MaxNewSize=128m -XX:PermSize=128m -XX:SurvivorRatio=5 -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=15 -XX:CMSMarkStackSize=8M -XX:CMSMarkStackSizeMax=32M -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled -XX:CMSWaitDuration=60000 -XX:+CMSScavengeBeforeRemark -XX:CMSTriggerInterval=600000 -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:ParallelGCThreads=8 -XX:ParallelCMSThreads=2

G1 parameters (mind MaxNewSize not specified)
-Xmx8884m -Xms2048m -XX:NewSize=128m -XX:PermSize=128m -XX:SurvivorRatio=5 -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=15 -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -XX:G1MixedGCCountTarget=16 -XX:ParallelGCThreads=8 -XX:ConcGCThreads=2

G1 log file GC young pause
[GC pause (young) [G1Ergonomics (CSet Construction) start choosing CSet, _pending_cards: 23697, predicted base time: 32.88 ms, remaining
time: 167.12 ms, target pause time: 200.00 ms] 
[Parallel Time: 389.8 ms, GC Workers: 8]
    >>>>
    [Scan RS (ms): Min: 328.8, Avg: 330.4, Max: 332.6, Diff: 3.8, Sum: 2642.9]
    <<<<
[Eden: 119.0M(119.0M)->0.0B(118.0M) Survivors: 9216.0K->10.0M Heap: 1801.6M(2048.0M)->1685.7M(2048.0M)]

Regards,
Michal


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