Bug in G1 logging? incorrect stop times?

Thu Oct 2 09:15:42 UTC 2014

Hi Thomas,

A very late reply. I happened to find this in my inbox and have some 
comments.

On 2014-08-29 14:15, Thomas Viessmann wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> I suspect a bug in G1 logging. Before I file a (possibly incorrect) 
> bug I would like to ask here.
> Is my understanding correct that the stw evacuation phase starts at 
> *48448.931* and ends at *48454**.034* ?
> This would mean a stop time of 5.103 s, which is clearly a mismatch to 
> the reported *9.3426141* s
> If the stw phase in fact started at a later time e.g. at *48449.288 
> *then the stop pause would have been even shorter.
>
> In addition I do not understand how all the relatively short 
> evacuation phases sum up to several seconds.
> If I add all the MAX values *69.1 + 22.2 + 45+ 150.8 + 0.1 + 155.1 + 
> 0.9 + 0.5**= 443.7**ms*
>
>
>
>
> 48443.380: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 
> 0.0084701 seconds
> *48448.931*: [GC pause (mixed) 48448.931: [G1Ergonomics (CSet 
> Construction) start choosing CSet, _pending_cards: 89458, predicted 
> base time: 73.58 ms, remaining time: 176.42 ms, target pause time: 
> 250.00 ms]
>  48448.931: [G1Ergonomics (CSet Construction) add young regions to 
> CSet, eden: 33 regions, survivors: 5 regions, predicted young region 
> time: 35.73 ms]
>  48448.933: [G1Ergonomics (CSet Construction) finish adding old 
> regions to CSet, reason: reclaimable percentage not over threshold, 
> old: 19 regions, max: 77 regions, reclaimable: 2570649712 bytes (9.98 
> %), threshold: 10.00 %]
>  48448.933: [G1Ergonomics (CSet Construction) added expensive regions 
> to CSet, reason: old CSet region num not reached min, old: 19 regions, 
> expensive: 7 regions, min: 26 regions, remaining time: 0.00 ms]
>  48448.933: [G1Ergonomics (CSet Construction) finish choosing CSet, 
> eden: 33 regions, survivors: 5 regions, old: 19 regions, predicted 
> pause time: 340.58 ms, target pause time: 250.00 ms]
> 48449.252: [SoftReference, 962 refs, 0.0064679 secs]48449.259: 
> [WeakReference, 7411 refs, 0.0027722 secs]48449.261: [FinalReference, 
> 272 refs, 0.0022754 secs]48449.264: [PhantomReference, 6 refs, 
> 0.0024348 secs]48449.266: [JNI Weak Reference, 0.0000337 secs] 
> 48449.288: [G1Ergonomics (Concurrent Cycles) do not request concurrent 
> cycle initiation, reason: still doing mixed collections, occupancy: 
> 14898167808 bytes, allocation request: 0 bytes, threshold: 11596411665 
> bytes (45.00 %), source: end of GC]
> *48449.288*: [G1Ergonomics (Mixed GCs) do not continue mixed GCs, 
> reason: reclaimable percentage not over threshold, candidate old 
> regions: 156 regions, reclaimable: 2570649712 bytes (9.98 %), 
> threshold: 10.00 %]
> , 0.3573636 secs]
>    [Parallel Time: 314.9 ms, GC Workers: 40]
>       [GC Worker Start (ms): Min: 48448933.6, Avg: 48448934.2, Max: 
> 48448934.7, Diff: 1.1]
>       [Ext Root Scanning (ms): Min: 15.1, Avg: 17.7, Max: *69.1*, 
> Diff: 54.0, Sum: 708.0]
>       [Update RS (ms): Min: 0.0, Avg: 14.5, Max: *22.2*, Diff: 22.2, 
> Sum: 580.3]
>          [Processed Buffers: Min: 0, Avg: 22.0, Max: *45*, Diff: 45, 
> Sum: 879]
>       [Scan RS (ms): Min: 88.7, Avg: 142.6, Max: *150.8*, Diff: 62.1, 
> Sum: 5705.2]
>       [Code Root Scanning (ms): Min: 0.0, Avg: 0.0, Max: *0.1*, Diff: 
> 0.1, Sum: 0.1]
>       [Object Copy (ms): Min: 131.4, Avg: 138.2, Max: *155.1*, Diff: 
> 23.8, Sum: 5526.6]
>       [Termination (ms): Min: 0.0, Avg: 0.7, Max: *0.9*, Diff: 0.9, 
> Sum: 27.2]
>       [GC Worker Other (ms): Min: 0.0, Avg: 0.3, Max: *0.5*, Diff: 
> 0.5, Sum: 10.0]
>       [GC Worker Total (ms): Min: 313.2, Avg: 313.9, Max: *314.7*, 
> Diff: 1.5, Sum: 12557.5]
>       [GC Worker End (ms): Min: 48449247.9, Avg: 48449248.1, Max: 
> 48449248.4, Diff: 0.5]
>    [Code Root Fixup: 2.2 ms]
>    [Code Root Migration: 0.2 ms]
>    [Clear CT: 2.0 ms]
>    [Other: 38.2 ms]
>       [Choose CSet: 1.7 ms]
>       [Ref Proc: 15.6 ms]
>       [Ref Enq: 1.2 ms]
>       [Free CSet: 2.4 ms]
>    [Eden: 1056.0M(1056.0M)->0.0B(1088.0M) Survivors: 160.0M->128.0M 
> Heap: 14.5G(24.0G)->13.9G(24.0G)]
>  [Times: user=12.45 sys=0.03, real=0.36 secs]
> *48454**.034*: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 
> *9.3426141* seconds
>
> For completeness; here are the cmd line options:
>
>
> /usr/jdk/instances/jdk1.7.0/bin/sparcv9/java -Xms24g -Xmx24g -server  
> -XX:StringTableSize=27001  -XX:PermSize=512m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m  
> -Xss512k
> -XX:+UseG1GC  -XX:SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB=500 -XX:+PrintGCDetails 
> -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -Xloggc:/var/cacao/instances/oem-ec/logs/gc.log 
> -XX:+UseGCLogFileRotation -XX:NumberOfGCLogFiles=10 
> -XX:GCLogFileSize=10m  -XX:+PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime 
> -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=250-XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=45 
> -XX:+ParallelRefProcEnabled  -XX:ParallelGCThreads=40 
> -XX:+PrintAdaptiveSizePolicy  -XX:+PrintSafepointStatistics 
> -XX:+PrintReferenceGC  -XX:G1HeapRegionSize=32m -XX:HeapBaseMinAddress=2G

The GC starts at 48448.931 and reports that it lasts for 0.36 seconds, 
so it should have ended at 48449.291. The last log line that states that 
the threads were stopped for 9 seconds is from the 
PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime flag, which logs how long the safepoint 
was. i.e. how long the Java threads where stopped.

This means that the safepoint lasted for 9 seconds but the GC only 
lasted for 0.36 seconds. So the rest of the time must be attributed to 
stopping and starting the Java threads. The safepoint was started at 
48444.691 (48454.034 - 9.3426141), which means that it took 4.240 
seconds (48448.931 - 48444.691) to stop all Java threads and 4.743 
seconds (9.3426141 - 4.240 - 0.36) to start them again.

I don't have a good explanation for why it takes so long to stop and 
start the threads. Are there many Java threads in the application? Are 
there many other processes running that could cause the Java threads to 
be scheduled out?

Thanks,
Bengt

>
>
>
> Thanks and Regards
>
> Thomas
>
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