RFR (S): JDK-8077841: G1: Remove PrintReachable support
Bengt Rutisson
bengt.rutisson at oracle.com
Wed Apr 15 11:52:56 UTC 2015
Hi everyone,
Could I have a couple of reviews for this change to remove the
PrintReachable support in G1?
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8077841
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8077841/webrev.00/
There are three develop flags that allow G1 to dump all objects on the
heap to a text format:
G1PrintReachableAtInitialMark
G1VerifyDuringGCPrintReachable
G1PrintReachableBaseFile
Turning on this dumping code will dump all objects in all regions to the
file specified by G1PrintReachableBaseFile,
Several things are disturbing with this code:
- The way the code opens a separate file and writes to it is pretty
uncommon for our logging code
- The flags are develop flags, so not usable in product code - even
druring verification
- The format the heap is dumped in is not a standard format so there is
no tool support for it
- There is already standard ways of dumping the heap, using hprof for
example.
- It is pretty unclear when the information logged by PrintReachable is
useful.
I've asked around a bit and as far as I can tell no one has been using
this feature for a long time. So, rather than trying to fix the code I
propose that we remove it.
Thanks,
Bengt
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