G1:long remark pauses
Thomas Viessmann
thomas.viessmann at oracle.com
Wed May 28 07:29:33 UTC 2014
Hi Charlie and all,
you were pretty close. It's the weak references which stops the world,
not the SoftRefs:
248766.241: [GC remark 248766.246: [GC ref-proc248766.246:
[SoftReference, 184918 refs, 0.1139337 secs]248766.360:
*[WeakReference, 2104678 refs, 1.9516481 secs]248768.312:*
[FinalReference, 45 refs, 0.0033450 secs]248768.315:
[PhantomReference, 106 refs, 0.0029866 secs]248768.318: [JNI Weak
Reference, 0.0008403 secs], 2.0846210 secs], 2.3878287 secs]
[Times: user=25.82 sys=0.87, real=2.39 secs]
248768.630: Total time for which application threads were stopped:
2.4019674 seconds
There are also a lot of SoftRefs around but those are not the culprit.
Varying -XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB between 100 and 10000 did not
change anything.
Any idea how this could be addressed?
Thanks and Regards
Thomas
On 05/16/14 14:40, charlie hunt wrote:
> From the sound of what Thomas is describing, this might be one of
> those apps that's making heavy use of SoftReferences. Output from
> -XX:+PrintReferenceGC as Bengt suggested will show if that's the case.
>
> If we see a large number of SoftReferences being processed per GC, we
> may get further help with tuning the SoftReference reclamation policy,
> (-XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB).
>
> charlie
>
> On 05/16/2014 07:32 AM, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>>
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>>
>> 16 maj 2014 kl. 14:01 skrev Thomas Viessmann
>> <thomas.viessmann at oracle.com <mailto:thomas.viessmann at oracle.com>>:
>>
>>> Hi Bengt,
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for confirming. ParallelOld had stop pauses in the range of
>>> 20 to 30 seconds.
>>> CMS was a disaster due to extreme fragmentation and high promotion
>>> rate even with
>>> huge eden and survivors.
>>
>> Ok, so even with the long remark pauses G1 is performing better than
>> the other GCs?
>>
>>
>>> There are definitely lots of references. I can find out
>>> details.
>>
>> Thanks, it would be interesting to get this data.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bengt
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks and Regards
>>>
>>> Thomas
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 05/16/14 13:53, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi again Thomas,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2014-05-16 13:34, Thomas Viessmann wrote:
>>>>> Hi Bengt,
>>>>>
>>>>> Sure, the application has lots of objects and references.
>>>>> Downsizing the application has been tried The heap size of 24 g is
>>>>> already at minimum. A smaller heap gave OutOfmemory really quick.
>>>>> My question was more whether the remark phases could be optimized
>>>>> further. I assume this is not the case and we have reached the
>>>>> limitations
>>>>> of G1, right?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How many reference objects does the application use? Can you run it
>>>> with -XX:+PrintReferenceGC to see how many there are?
>>>>
>>>> If there are a lot of them I don't think there is much more that
>>>> can be done for the remark phase. But if there are not that many I
>>>> guess it means that the remark phase is inefficient.
>>>>
>>>> Have you tried any of the other GCs? How do they behave with this
>>>> application?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Bengt
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks and Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Thomas
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 05/16/14 13:18, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Thomas,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2014-05-16 13:10, Thomas Viessmann wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Bengt,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well, that's already done and it did improve things.
>>>>>>> argv[21]: -XX:+ParallelRefProcEnabled
>>>>>>> argv[22]: -XX:ParallelGCThreads=48
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sorry, I missed that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> before -XX:+ParallelRefProcEnabled was set the stop times were in the range of 20 to 60 seconds.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> OK. Glad it helped some. :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The application is a Cacao by Oracle. So they cannot change it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there some way of reducing the amount of reference objects
>>>>>> that Cacao uses? Does it have cache sizes or similar that can be
>>>>>> tuned. With a JFR recording we might be able to figure out where
>>>>>> the reference objects come from.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Bengt
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks and Regards
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thomas
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 05/16/14 12:58, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Thomas,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It looks like the application is using a lot of Reference
>>>>>>>> objects. The time spent in remark is dominated by reference
>>>>>>>> processing. See the attached graph generated from the log file
>>>>>>>> you sent.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You can try to see if adding -XX:+ParallelRefProcEnabled
>>>>>>>> improves the situation.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If the customer is interested in updating their application
>>>>>>>> they might want to see if they can reduce the number of
>>>>>>>> java.lang.ref.Reference objects they use.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hths,
>>>>>>>> Bengt
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 2014-05-16 10:26, Thomas Viessmann wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I've been tuning a Java 7u51, Solaris 10, T4 system with 24G
>>>>>>>>> heap.
>>>>>>>>> My customer is not very happy with the remark pauses of up to
>>>>>>>>> 2 seconds.
>>>>>>>>> -XX:ParallelGCThreads=48 turned out to be the optimum. Here
>>>>>>>>> is the log file
>>>>>>>>> which contains the java args at the top:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://aubing.de.oracle.com/gclog/gc_log_03052014.log
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Any idea to drive the remark stop times further down?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks and Regards
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thomas
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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