<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Don't mean to jump in front of Monica. :-/ But, she can confirm. ;-)<div><br></div><div>A quick look at the G1 source code suggests that if InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=0, the following will happen:</div><div>- the first minor GC will initiate a concurrent cycle implying that you'll see a young GC with an initial-mark in the GC log w/ +PrintGCDetails</div><div>- every minor GC there after, as long as there is not an active concurrent cycle, will initiate the start of a concurrent cycle</div><div>* So, in other words, concurrent cycles will run back to back. Remember that there needs to be a minor GC to initiate the concurrent cycle, i.e. the initial-mark. There is at least one caveat to that which I'll explain next. So, once a concurrent cycle complete, the next concurrent cycle will not start, until the next minor GC, or a humongous allocation occurs as described next.</div><div>- If there is a humongous object allocation, a concurrent cycle will be initiated (if InitiattingHeapOccupancyPercent=0). This is done before the humongous allocation is done.</div><div><br></div><div>charlie ...</div><div><br><div><div><div>On Oct 19, 2012, at 12:58 PM, Kirk Pepperdine wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Monica,<div><br></div><div>Can you comment on what a value of 0 means?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Kirk</div><div><br><div><div>On 2012-10-19, at 2:55 PM, Monica Beckwith <<a href="mailto:monica.beckwith@oracle.com">monica.beckwith@oracle.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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Couple of quick observations and questions - <br>
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<li>G1 is officially supported in 7u4. (There are numerous
performance improvements that I recommend updating to the latest
jdk7 update, if possible)</li>
<li>What do you mean by old gen collection? Are you talking about
MixedGCs?</li>
<li>Instead of setting InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent to zero,
have you tried resizing your young generation?</li>
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<li>I see the NewRatio, but that fixes the nursery to 640,
instead have you tried with a lower (than the min default) of
nursery using the NewSize option?</li>
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On 10/19/2012 12:13 AM, csewhiz wrote:
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<div>Hello All,</div>
<div> Sorry for posting this question in this mailing list. I
am unable to find any answer for this. I am trying to tune our
application for G1GC as we need very small pauses Below
500msec. </div>
<div> But the problem is when we are runing with G1GC (under
jdk 6_u37) Old generation of garbage collection only
happening when it is reaching the Max GC size I noticed on jdk
6U 37 if max heap size is 1GB then it is close to 1sec 2GB
close to 2 sec pauses. </div>
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<div> Is there any parameter to force the old gc happening
regularly. </div>
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<div>I am trying following setting, </div>
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<div>-Xms1280M -Xmx1280M -XX:+UseG1GC
-XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=15 -XX:SurvivorRatio=8 -XX:NewRatio=1
-XX:GCPauseIntervalMillis=7500 -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=500
-XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=0 -XX:ParallelGCThreads=7
-XX:ConcGCThreads=7 </div>
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<div>If anyone can give insight on how full GC is triggred
internals will be of great help.</div>
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<div>PS: I have tried without any option for G1 but not of much
help hence .. this one trying to be agressive ? but of not
much help.</div>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<div>Soumit<br>
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