problem in gc with incremental mode

Y. S. Ramakrishna y.s.ramakrishna at oracle.com
Mon Nov 8 09:11:56 PST 2010


I agree completely with Jon's recommendation. As regards, your question:-

>>> I didn't quiet understand what exactly you meant by "scale back the # 
>>> parallel threads used by the CMS..." is there a parameter I need to 
>>> set for that ? if yes what should be its value ?

On a 4-processor machine, you get a single concurrent marking thread, so
you do not need to do anything specific since you are already at the minimum
# concurrent worker threads used by CMS.

-- ramki

On 11/07/10 20:04, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
> The incremental mode of CMS was implemented for running CMS on machines
> with a single hardware thread.  The idea was that CMS does work concurrently
> with the application but with a single hardware thread, when CMS ran in
> a concurrent phase, it would still be stopping the application (CMS would
> use the single hardware thread and there would be nothing for the 
> application
> to run on).  So the incremental mode of CMS does the concurrent phases
> in increments and gives up the hardware thread to the application on
> a regular basis.  On a 4 processor machine I would not recommend the 
> incremental
> mode.    If you have not tried the regular CMS (no incremental mode),
> I recommend that you try it.  Overall it is more efficient.
> 
> On 11/6/10 11:32 PM, Dori Rabin wrote:
>> Thanks fo your replies...
>> I am  running on jdk1.6.0_04 and OS is Linux 2.4.21-37.ELsmp, I have 4 
>> processors on the machine
>> About sharing the log file it might be a little problematic now so 
>> let's discuss it if no other option 
>> I also thought of getting rid of the incremental mode but I am afraid 
>> of the effect of long pauses on our realtime application due to the 
>> stop the world phase of CMS....
>> I didn't quiet understand what exactly you meant by "scale back the # 
>> parallel threads used by the CMS..." is there a parameter I need to 
>> set for that ? if yes what should be its value ?
>> Thanks
>> Dori
>>  
>>  
>> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Y. S. Ramakrishna 
>> <y.s.ramakrishna at oracle.com <mailto:y.s.ramakrishna at oracle.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Dori --
>>
>>     What's the version of JDK you are running? Can you share a
>>     complete log?
>>     It appears as though the iCMS "auto-pacing" is, for some reason, not
>>     kicking in "soon enough"; one workaround is to use turn off
>>     auto-pacing
>>     and use an explicit duty-cycle (which has its own disadvantages).
>>
>>     I'd suggest filing a bug, and including a complete log file showing
>>     the problem.
>>
>>     thanks.
>>     -- ramki
>>
>>     On 11/04/10 06:27, Rabin Dori wrote:
>>     > Hi,
>>     >
>>     > Once in a while and for a reason I cannot understand the CMS
>>     kicks up
>>     > too late which causes a promotion failure and full GC that takes
>>     very
>>     > long (more than 2 minutes which causes other problems)…
>>     >
>>     > My question is how to tune the gc flags in order to make sure
>>     that the
>>     > concurrent sweep will always occur in parallel (incremental mode)
>>     > without long pause stop the world but also without reaching its
>>     maximum
>>     > capacity ?
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > (I know that in my case the *CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction*=60 is
>>     > ignored because of the CMSIncrementalMode
>>     >
>>     > And from looking in the log file we can see that the old generation
>>     > reaches size of 835’959K out of 843’000K at the time the concurrent
>>     > failure (I marked this line in red)
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > *_I am running the jvm with the following parameters :_*
>>     >
>>     > wrapper.java.additional.4=-XX:NewSize=200m
>>     >
>>     > wrapper.java.additional.5=-XX:SurvivorRatio=6
>>     >
>>     > wrapper.java.additional.6=-XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=4
>>     >
>>     > wrapper.java.additional.7=-XX:+CMSIncrementalMode
>>     >
>>     > wrapper.java.additional.8=-XX:+CMSIncrementalPacing
>>     >
>>     > wrapper.java.additional.9=-XX:+DisableExplicitGC
>>     >
>>     > wrapper.java.additional.10=-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
>>     >
>>     > wrapper.java.additional.11=-XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled
>>     >
>>     > wrapper.java.additional.12=-XX:+PrintGCDetails
>>     >
>>     > wrapper.java.additional.13=-XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps
>>     >
>>     > wrapper.java.additional.14=-XX:-TraceClassUnloading
>>     >
>>     > wrapper.java.additional.15=-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
>>     >
>>     > wrapper.java.additional.16=-verbose:gc
>>     >
>>     > wrapper.java.additional.17=-XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=60
>>     >
>>     > wrapper.java.additional.18=-XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly
>>     >
>>     > wrapper.java.additional.19=-XX:+PrintTenuringDistribution
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > *_Extracts from the log file:_*
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:54:33 | Desired survivor size
>>     13107200
>>     > bytes, new threshold 4 (max 4)
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:54:33 | - age   1:     544000
>>     > bytes,     544000 total
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:54:33 | - age   2:     346320
>>     > bytes,     890320 total
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:54:33 | - age   3:     262800
>>     > bytes,    1153120 total
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:54:33 | - age   4:     238528
>>     > bytes,    1391648 total
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:54:33 | : 155621K->2065K(179200K),
>>     > 0.1046330 secs] 988712K->835373K(1022976K) icms_dc=0 , 0.1047500
>>     secs]
>>     > [Times: user=0.00 sys=0.00, real=0.11 secs]
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:55:54 | 422097.583: [GC
>>     422097.583:
>>     > [ParNew
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:55:54 |
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:55:54 | Desired survivor size
>>     13107200
>>     > bytes, new threshold 4 (max 4)
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:55:54 | - age   1:     577104
>>     > bytes,     577104 total
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:55:54 | - age   2:     261856
>>     > bytes,     838960 total
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:55:54 | - age   3:     298832
>>     > bytes,    1137792 total
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:55:54 | - age   4:     259176
>>     > bytes,    1396968 total
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:55:54 | : 155664K->2386K(179200K),
>>     > 0.0498010 secs] 988972K->835920K(1022976K) icms_dc=0 , 0.0499370
>>     secs]
>>     > [Times: user=0.00 sys=0.00, real=0.05 secs]
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:57:27 | 422190.993: [GC
>>     422190.993:
>>     > [ParNew
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:57:28 |
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:57:28 | Desired survivor size
>>     13107200
>>     > bytes, new threshold 4 (max 4)
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:57:28 | - age   1:     676656
>>     > bytes,     676656 total
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:57:28 | - age   2:     283376
>>     > bytes,     960032 total
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:57:28 | - age   3:     239472
>>     > bytes,    1199504 total
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:57:28 | - age   4:     264960
>>     > bytes,    1464464 total
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:57:28 | : 155986K->1918K(179200K),
>>     > 0.0652010 secs] 989520K->835699K(1022976K) icms_dc=0 , 0.0653200
>>     secs]
>>     > [Times: user=0.01 sys=0.00, real=0.07 secs]
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:58:54 | 422277.406: [GC
>>     422277.406:
>>     > [ParNew
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:58:54 | Desired survivor size
>>     13107200
>>     > bytes, new threshold 4 (max 4)
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:58:54 | - age   1:     615944
>>     > bytes,     615944 total
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:58:54 | - age   2:     334120
>>     > bytes,     950064 total
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:58:54 | - age   3:     276736
>>     > bytes,    1226800 total
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:58:54 | - age   4:     236424
>>     > bytes,    1463224 total
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 04:58:54 | : 155518K->1928K(179200K),
>>     > 0.0378730 secs] 989299K->835959K(1022976K) icms_dc=0 , 0.0379920
>>     secs]
>>     > [Times: user=0.00 sys=0.00, real=0.04 secs]
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 05:00:23 | 422366.439: [GC
>>     422366.439:
>>     > [ParNew
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 05:00:23 |  (promotion failed)
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 05:00:23 | Desired survivor size
>>     13107200
>>     > bytes, new threshold 4 (max 4)
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 05:00:23 | - age   1:     574000
>>     > bytes,     574000 total
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 05:00:23 | - age   2:     315432
>>     > bytes,     889432 total
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 05:00:23 | - age   3:     281216
>>     > bytes,    1170648 total
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 05:00:23 | - age   4:     271776
>>     > bytes,    1442424 total
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 05:00:23 | :
>>     155528K->155689K(179200K),
>>     > 0.1007840 secs]422366.540: [CMS
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 05:01:46 | [Unloading class
>>     > sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor121]
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 05:01:46 | [Unloading class
>>     > sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor119]
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 05:01:46 | [Unloading class
>>     > sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor124]
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 05:01:46 | [Unloading class
>>     > sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor123]
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 05:01:46 | [Unloading class
>>     > sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor120]
>>     >
>>     > INFO   | jvm 1    | 2010/11/02 05:01:46 | [Unloading class
>>     > sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor122]
>>     >
>>     > ERROR  | wrapper  | 2010/11/02 05:02:37 | JVM appears hung:
>>     Timed out
>>     > waiting for signal from JVM.
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
>>     >
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