Jvm asserts with DynamicNumberOfGCThreads and ParallelRefProcEnabled

Thomas Schatzl thomas.schatzl at oracle.com
Mon Feb 8 10:29:02 UTC 2016


Hi Goetz,

On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 07:26 +0000, Lindenmaier, Goetz wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> We have ParallelRefProcEnabled enabled. I found that
> TestDynamicNumberOfGCThreads.java
> is asserting because of that.
>  
> The following command line runs into
> g1CollectedHeap, process_discovered_references(), assert(rp->num_q()
> == no_of_gc_workers) :
> -XX:+ParallelRefProcEnabled -XX:+UseG1GC -Xmx10M 
> -XX:+UseDynamicNumberOfGCThreads -Xlog:gc+task=trace
> TestDynamicNumberOfGCThreads$GCTest
>  
> On my machine, there are 33 queues,  but only 2 processing threads.
> I think this either should be fixed, or the combination of flags 
> should be avoided by ergonomics.
>  
> Also, the test should be extended by that command line, I guess.

  filed JDK-8149343. Thanks for reporting this issue.

Thanks,
  Thomas




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