CMS changes from 6u4 to 6u11 ?

[Adam Hawthorne]

I have a customer with whom I worked a long time between 6u1 and 6u4, when Sun fixed the bug about very long pause times on Linux due to stopping all the application threads.  That fix resolved the issues he saw where he would see the load climb up to ~80-100 and then everything would begin running again.

The customer recently made four significant system changes:

1.  New version of our product
2.  Java upgrade from 6u4 to 6u11
3.  32-bit -> 64-bit machine
4.  VMWare virtualization

The previous machine was a 4-way Intel on 32-bit RedHat Advance Server 4/Linux 2.6.9.  The new machine is an 8-way Xeon E4540 on Suse 10 SP2 64-bit/2.6.16.  The VMWare instance allocates 4 processors and 8GB of RAM.  Since he moved to 64-bit, I suggested he increase his -Xmx and -Xms by about 30%.

This is his old Java commandline:

-Xmx2048m -Xms900m -XX\:NewRatio\=4 -XX\:MaxNewSize\=200m -XX\:+ExplicitGCInvokesConcurrent -XX\:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX\:+UseParNewGC -XX\:+CMSParallelRemarkEnabled -XX\:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction\=50 -XX\:+PrintGCDetails -XX\:+PrintGCTimeStamps -server -verbose\:gc -Xloggc\:logs/gc.txt -XX\:CompileCommandFile\=cfg/.hotspot_compiler -Dnetworkaddress.cache.ttl\=10 -Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl\=10 -Djava.awt.headless\=true  -XX\:+PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime

I believe this upgrade occurred on Friday, 4/3.  This morning, 4/6, he complained of sluggishness and high load again.  I looked at his logs, and in the first hour, I saw a 29-second remark.

He's rolled back to the previous version of our product to eliminate that variable as a source of confusion, but such a long remark was suspicious to me.  I can send a log to anyone who wants to look.  I may have another log from this most recent restart as well, as he's just informed me it's beginning to show some similar behavior.

Thanks,

Adam

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Adam Hawthorne
Software Engineer
BASIS International Ltd.
www.basis.com
+1.505.345.5232 Phone

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