problem in gc with incremental mode

Dori Rabin dorirabin at gmail.com
Mon Nov 8 09:27:13 PST 2010


Well thank you both
I will try these recommendations hoping for the best
Thanks
Dori

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Y. S. Ramakrishna <
y.s.ramakrishna at oracle.com> wrote:

> 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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