Full GC run freeing no memory despite many unreachable objects

[Jon Masamitsu]

  I assume that the Java process does not recover on it's
own and has to be killed?

What are the column heading for your jstat output?

Turn on GC logging (if you don't already have it on) and check to
see if your perm gen is full.

If your perm gen is not full but the Java heap appears to be
full, then the garbage collector just thinks that all that data
is live.  You used jmap.  Do you know what's filling up
the heap?



On 11/10/2010 7:47 AM, Darragh Curran wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hope someone can help me understand this better.
>
> I'm running java version "Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build
> 1.6.0_19-b04) Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 16.2-b04, mixed mode)"
>
> It runs tomcat, with jvm heap options '-Xmx1600m -Xms1600m'
>
> Every few weeks a host becomes unavailable for requests. When I look
> into it, the java process is using 100% CPU, seems to have no running
> threads when I do multiple stack dumps, and based on jstat output
> appears to spend all it's time doing full gc runs:
>
> 14400.0 13824.0  0.0    0.0   517888.0 517888.0 1092288.0  1060014.1
> 37376.0 37182.0  38654 1288.741 1107  5656.903 6945.644
> 14400.0 13824.0  0.0    0.0   517888.0 517888.0 1092288.0  1060014.1
> 37376.0 37182.0  38654 1288.741 1108  5666.547 6955.287
> 14400.0 13824.0  0.0    0.0   517888.0 517888.0 1092288.0  1060014.1
> 37376.0 37182.0  38654 1288.741 1108  5666.547 6955.287
> 14400.0 13824.0  0.0    0.0   517888.0 517888.0 1092288.0  1060014.1
> 37376.0 37182.0  38654 1288.741 1108  5666.547 6955.287
> 14400.0 13824.0  0.0    0.0   517888.0 517888.0 1092288.0  1060014.1
> 37376.0 37182.0  38654 1288.741 1108  5666.547 6955.287
> 14400.0 13824.0  0.0    0.0   517888.0 517888.0 1092288.0  1060014.1
> 37376.0 37182.0  38654 1288.741 1108  5666.547 6955.287
> 14400.0 13824.0  0.0    0.0   517888.0 517888.0 1092288.0  1060014.1
> 37376.0 37182.0  38654 1288.741 1108  5666.547 6955.287
> 14400.0 13824.0  0.0    0.0   517888.0 517888.0 1092288.0  1060014.1
> 37376.0 37182.0  38654 1288.741 1108  5666.547 6955.287
> 14400.0 13824.0  0.0    0.0   517888.0 517888.0 1092288.0  1060014.1
> 37376.0 37182.0  38654 1288.741 1108  5666.547 6955.287
> 14400.0 13824.0  0.0    0.0   517888.0 517888.0 1092288.0  1060014.1
> 37376.0 37182.0  38654 1288.741 1108  5666.547 6955.287
> 14400.0 13824.0  0.0    0.0   517888.0 517888.0 1092288.0  1060014.1
> 37376.0 37182.0  38654 1288.741 1109  5675.945 6964.686
> 14400.0 13824.0  0.0    0.0   517888.0 517888.0 1092288.0  1060014.1
> 37376.0 37182.0  38654 1288.741 1109  5675.945 6964.686
>
> I used jmap to dump the heap for analysis. When I analyse it I see
> that 94% of objects are unreachable, but not yet collected.
>
> > From jstat it appears that gc is running roughly every 10 seconds and
> lasting approx 10 seconds, but fails to free any memory.
>
> I'd really appreciate some advise on how to better understand my
> problem and what to do to try and fix it.
>
> Thanks,
> Darragh
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