JEP 291: Deprecate the Concurrent Mark Sweep (CMS) Garbage Collector

[Jon Masamitsu]

Kirk,

Thanks for your email.   Please understand that I'm not the one
that needs to be convinced that CMS could never be turned on.
And maybe CMS being turned on isn't even the first or last
question.   I'm guessing including the CMS bits in an Oracle
build is a decision that would have to be made at a fairly
high management level.

Jon

On 7/1/2016 10:24 AM, kirk at kodewerk.com wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
> I’ve reversed engineered startup parameters and the result is a chart of all possible flag settings and their outcomes. I’d be happy to share it with you as I believe it shows a way to prevent CMS from being turned on. That said, I would consider this approach to be a hack and I’m not sure it should be used. However it does suggest there is a way to prevent CMS from being activated. BTW, it can’t be turned on after the JVM is initialized.
>
> Kind regards,
> Kirk Pepperdine
>
>> On Jul 1, 2016, at 5:12 PM, Jon Masamitsu <jon.masamitsu at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> On 7/1/2016 7:39 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> On 01/07/16 15:36, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
>>>> Do you have a suggestion on how continued support for CMS in OpenJDK
>>>> would work?  I've been told that if CMS is built in the binaries that Oracle
>>>> distributes, then customers will expect Oracle to support it. Regardless
>>>> of what the release notes say.
>>> How are they to know that it's in there?
>> If nothing else, it's open source.  :-)
>>>   All you have to do is
>>> disable the option in Oracle builds.
>> It seems like that should be enough, but I honestly don't know.
>> If there's some squirrely way for a customer to turn it on
>> (jcmd, start up script, who knows what), we'd be stuck.
>> I think Oracle is very care about such things.  If asked, "Is there
>> any possible way that CMS could be turned on?",  the best
>> I could do would be to say, "I don't think so".  Not good enough.
>>
>> Jon
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>>
>>> Andrew.
>>>