RFR: 8347256: Epsilon: Demote heap size and AlwaysPreTouch warnings to info level

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 10:58:17 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

> For Epsilon, we have added `log_warning` messages when heap size and AlwaysPreTouch configuration is not great with [JDK-8232051](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8232051). Unfortunately, this means we print this warning all the time, even though users might not actually run into problems there, or when users tried to implement these suggestions and still decided to run against them.
> 
> I think we want to emit the suggestions in the normal GC log instead, so they are not printed all the time. Additionally, I moved the printing at the end of init logger, so it does not come in the middle of `gc,init` block.
> 
> Output before:
> 
> 
> $ java -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseEpsilonGC Hello.java 
> [0.008s][warning][gc,init] Consider setting -Xms equal to -Xmx to avoid resizing hiccups
> [0.008s][warning][gc,init] Consider enabling -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch to avoid memory commit hiccups
> Hello!
> 
> $ java -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseEpsilonGC -Xlog:gc Hello.java 
> [0.008s][info][gc] Using Epsilon
> [0.008s][warning][gc,init] Consider setting -Xms equal to -Xmx to avoid resizing hiccups
> [0.008s][warning][gc,init] Consider enabling -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch to avoid memory commit hiccups
> Hello!
> [0.757s][info   ][gc     ] Heap: 1024M reserved, 129M (12.60%) committed, 23906K (2.28%) used
> 
> 
> Output after:
> 
> 
> $ java -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseEpsilonGC Hello.java 
> Hello!
> 
> $ java -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseEpsilonGC -Xlog:gc Hello.java 
> [0.009s][info][gc] Using Epsilon
> [0.009s][info][gc] Consider setting -Xms equal to -Xmx to avoid resizing hiccups
> [0.009s][info][gc] Consider enabling -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch to avoid memory commit hiccups
> Hello!
> [0.753s][info][gc] Heap: 1024M reserved, 129M (12.60%) committed, 23908K (2.28%) used

Thanks!

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22965#issuecomment-2582068172