Hung JVM consuming 100% CPU

Bogdan Dimitriu bdimitri at cisco.com
Thu Mar 3 01:18:58 PST 2011


Hi Jon,

I haven't tried  the "-XX:-UseParNewGC" option as I wasn't very sure of 
its effects. On the web it seems to be pretty much only mentioned in the 
context of JDK 1.4.2, but now that you mention it, I guess it's probably 
because it is on by default in JVM 5&6.

I have looked back through the logs for messages about ParNew promotion 
failures. The message only appears once, when the JVM gets into the hung 
state. The problem is though that I only have the GC logs for the last 
10 hours, as somehow the first part of the log is consistently corrupted 
on all the servers. I had to use the Linux "strings" command to get rid 
of the corrupted first part, so unfortunately I have the logs only for 
the last 10 hours of the entire run (in the example that I'll paste 
below the application had been running for about 48 hours). I suspect 
this is related to the fact that the JVM overwrites the existing file, 
so in the next release of the application I will modify the startup 
scripts to create a new file each time it starts up.

Actually I'm not sure whether the Concurrent phase is in progress - it 
might be, as CMS is mentioned in the last line of the log (which is 
incomplete, suggesting this is where it got stuck). Here is the last 
part of the log, including a Full GC run:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

172810.835: [GC 172810.836: [ParNew: 335013K->17207K(353920K), 0.0256640 
secs] 812472K->494666K(878208K), 0.0262000 secs] [Times: user=0.10 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
172818.346: [GC 172818.346: [ParNew: 331831K->25313K(353920K), 0.0372040 
secs] 809290K->502772K(878208K), 0.0377570 secs] [Times: user=0.12 
sys=0.00, real=0.04 secs]
172827.274: [GC 172827.274: [ParNew: 339937K->26650K(353920K), 0.0547470 
secs] 817396K->506506K(878208K), 0.0552930 secs] [Times: user=0.27 
sys=0.00, real=0.06 secs]
172835.992: [GC 172835.993: [ParNew: 341274K->24233K(353920K), 0.0399470 
secs] 821130K->507267K(878208K), 0.0404820 secs] [Times: user=0.08 
sys=0.00, real=0.04 secs]
172836.036: [GC [1 CMS-initial-mark: 483033K(524288K)] 507697K(878208K), 
0.0157910 secs] [Times: user=0.01 sys=0.00, real=0.02 secs]
172836.052: [CMS-concurrent-mark-start]
172837.283: [CMS-concurrent-mark: 1.116/1.230 secs] [Times: user=2.56 
sys=0.10, real=1.23 secs]
172837.283: [CMS-concurrent-preclean-start]
172837.289: [CMS-concurrent-preclean: 0.003/0.006 secs] [Times: 
user=0.00 sys=0.01, real=0.00 secs]
172837.289: [CMS-concurrent-abortable-preclean-start]
  CMS: abort preclean due to time 172842.290: 
[CMS-concurrent-abortable-preclean: 0.928/5.001 secs] [Times: user=2.44 
sys=0.40, real=5.00 secs]
172842.293: [GC[YG occupancy: 272804 K (353920 K)]172842.293: [Rescan 
(parallel) , 0.1720890 secs]172842.465: [weak refs processing, 0.0513100 
secs] [1 CMS-remark: 483033K(524288K)] 755838K(878208K), 0.2239370 secs] 
[Times: user=1.12 sys=0.01, real=0.22 secs]
172842.517: [CMS-concurrent-sweep-start]
172843.138: [CMS-concurrent-sweep: 0.581/0.620 secs] [Times: user=0.76 
sys=0.03, real=0.62 secs]
172843.138: [CMS-concurrent-reset-start]
172843.145: [CMS-concurrent-reset: 0.007/0.007 secs] [Times: user=0.01 
sys=0.00, real=0.01 secs]
172844.526: [GC 172844.527: [ParNew: 338857K->19496K(353920K), 0.0274480 
secs] 668134K->348772K(878208K), 0.0279560 secs] [Times: user=0.08 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
172856.952: [GC 172856.952: [ParNew: 334120K->24285K(353920K), 0.0336270 
secs] 663396K->354183K(878208K), 0.0341980 secs] [Times: user=0.12 
sys=0.00, real=0.04 secs]
172863.470: [GC 172863.470: [ParNew: 338909K->26540K(353920K), 0.0318580 
secs] 668807K->357471K(878208K), 0.0323820 secs] [Times: user=0.13 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
172869.969: [GC 172869.969: [ParNew: 341164K->21134K(353920K), 0.0284350 
secs] 672095K->352661K(878208K), 0.0289620 secs] [Times: user=0.08 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
172875.900: [GC 172875.900: [ParNew: 335758K->26017K(353920K), 0.0351950 
secs] 667285K->358464K(878208K), 0.0357110 secs] [Times: user=0.11 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
172886.284: [GC 172886.284: [ParNew: 340641K->30161K(353920K), 0.0392460 
secs] 673088K->363526K(878208K), 0.0398300 secs] [Times: user=0.14 
sys=0.01, real=0.04 secs]
172894.582: [GC 172894.583: [ParNew: 344785K->33738K(353920K), 0.0528800 
secs] 678150K->371746K(878208K), 0.0534410 secs] [Times: user=0.17 
sys=0.00, real=0.05 secs]
172902.573: [GC 172902.574: [ParNew: 348362K->20566K(353920K), 0.0350850 
secs] 686370K->360603K(878208K), 0.0356060 secs] [Times: user=0.10 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
172911.092: [GC 172911.093: [ParNew: 335190K->25539K(353920K), 0.0291210 
secs] 675227K->365577K(878208K), 0.0296190 secs] [Times: user=0.10 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
172920.086: [GC 172920.086: [ParNew: 340163K->27850K(353920K), 0.0364810 
secs] 680201K->369749K(878208K), 0.0369720 secs] [Times: user=0.13 
sys=0.00, real=0.04 secs]
172926.834: [GC 172926.835: [ParNew: 342474K->19027K(353920K), 0.0212320 
secs] 684373K->362527K(878208K), 0.0217080 secs] [Times: user=0.07 
sys=0.01, real=0.02 secs]
172932.864: [GC 172932.864: [ParNew: 333651K->17634K(353920K), 0.0290070 
secs] 677151K->361134K(878208K), 0.0295560 secs] [Times: user=0.11 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
172941.276: [GC 172941.276: [ParNew: 332258K->23914K(353920K), 0.0309830 
secs] 675758K->368230K(878208K), 0.0314980 secs] [Times: user=0.12 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
172950.214: [GC 172950.214: [ParNew: 338538K->29813K(353920K), 0.0443870 
secs] 682854K->376094K(878208K), 0.0448970 secs] [Times: user=0.16 
sys=0.01, real=0.04 secs]
172960.301: [GC 172960.301: [ParNew: 344437K->22418K(353920K), 0.0328660 
secs] 690718K->372184K(878208K), 0.0333630 secs] [Times: user=0.10 
sys=0.00, real=0.04 secs]
172970.265: [GC 172970.265: [ParNew: 337042K->21191K(353920K), 0.0282100 
secs] 686808K->370957K(878208K), 0.0286870 secs] [Times: user=0.09 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
172979.430: [GC 172979.430: [ParNew: 335815K->25613K(353920K), 0.0337320 
secs] 685581K->376256K(878208K), 0.0342430 secs] [Times: user=0.12 
sys=0.01, real=0.03 secs]
172985.633: [GC 172985.633: [ParNew: 340237K->33418K(353920K), 0.0697150 
secs] 690880K->386230K(878208K), 0.0702150 secs] [Times: user=0.30 
sys=0.16, real=0.07 secs]
172991.103: [GC 172991.104: [ParNew: 348042K->13141K(353920K), 0.0245680 
secs] 700854K->368781K(878208K), 0.0250600 secs] [Times: user=0.11 
sys=0.00, real=0.02 secs]
172997.990: [GC 172997.990: [ParNew: 327765K->20332K(353920K), 0.0275460 
secs] 683405K->375972K(878208K), 0.0280460 secs] [Times: user=0.11 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
173006.103: [GC 173006.103: [ParNew: 334955K->25609K(353920K), 0.0350700 
secs] 690595K->381249K(878208K), 0.0355930 secs] [Times: user=0.12 
sys=0.01, real=0.04 secs]
173014.988: [GC 173014.988: [ParNew: 340233K->28945K(353920K), 0.0394950 
secs] 695873K->388856K(878208K), 0.0399710 secs] [Times: user=0.18 
sys=0.01, real=0.04 secs]
173024.762: [GC 173024.763: [ParNew: 343569K->20790K(353920K), 0.0285920 
secs] 703480K->382552K(878208K), 0.0291690 secs] [Times: user=0.10 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
173032.275: [GC 173032.275: [ParNew: 335414K->22651K(353920K), 0.0314880 
secs] 697176K->384412K(878208K), 0.0319920 secs] [Times: user=0.09 
sys=0.01, real=0.03 secs]
173040.422: [GC 173040.422: [ParNew: 337275K->28884K(353920K), 0.0364200 
secs] 699036K->391736K(878208K), 0.0369290 secs] [Times: user=0.12 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
173047.318: [GC 173047.318: [ParNew: 338931K->29454K(353920K), 0.0452430 
secs] 701782K->394091K(878208K), 0.0457590 secs] [Times: user=0.18 
sys=0.09, real=0.05 secs]
173055.117: [GC 173055.117: [ParNew: 344078K->16092K(353920K), 0.0269200 
secs] 708715K->382187K(878208K), 0.0274180 secs] [Times: user=0.09 
sys=0.01, real=0.03 secs]
173063.941: [GC 173063.941: [ParNew: 330716K->22134K(353920K), 0.0276290 
secs] 696811K->388229K(878208K), 0.0281150 secs] [Times: user=0.11 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
173072.327: [GC 173072.328: [ParNew: 336758K->28665K(353920K), 0.0321540 
secs] 702853K->394760K(878208K), 0.0327300 secs] [Times: user=0.11 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
173081.576: [GC 173081.577: [ParNew: 343289K->21232K(353920K), 0.0226000 
secs] 709384K->388820K(878208K), 0.0231110 secs] [Times: user=0.08 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
173091.248: [GC 173091.248: [ParNew: 335856K->20493K(353920K), 0.0307700 
secs] 703444K->388081K(878208K), 0.0312920 secs] [Times: user=0.10 
sys=0.00, real=0.04 secs]
173100.070: [GC 173100.070: [ParNew: 335117K->23963K(353920K), 0.0368090 
secs] 702705K->392639K(878208K), 0.0373010 secs] [Times: user=0.12 
sys=0.00, real=0.04 secs]
173108.493: [GC 173108.493: [ParNew: 337029K->24101K(353920K), 0.0345020 
secs] 705704K->393929K(878208K), 0.0350420 secs] [Times: user=0.10 
sys=0.03, real=0.04 secs]
173111.886: [GC 173111.886: [ParNew: 338725K->15160K(353920K), 0.0256680 
secs] 708553K->384989K(878208K), 0.0261560 secs] [Times: user=0.09 
sys=0.00, real=0.02 secs]
173118.311: [GC 173118.311: [ParNew: 329783K->25394K(353920K), 0.0327300 
secs] 699611K->395883K(878208K), 0.0332530 secs] [Times: user=0.13 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
173125.560: [GC 173125.560: [ParNew: 340018K->28397K(353920K), 0.0391560 
secs] 710507K->401633K(878208K), 0.0396540 secs] [Times: user=0.15 
sys=0.00, real=0.04 secs]
173133.837: [GC 173133.837: [ParNew: 343021K->29626K(353920K), 0.0398970 
secs] 716257K->406532K(878208K), 0.0403770 secs] [Times: user=0.17 
sys=0.01, real=0.04 secs]
173143.335: [GC 173143.335: [ParNew: 344248K->22141K(353920K), 0.0265350 
secs] 721154K->400591K(878208K), 0.0270290 secs] [Times: user=0.09 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
173151.453: [GC 173151.453: [ParNew: 336765K->20814K(353920K), 0.0258770 
secs] 715215K->399264K(878208K), 0.0263840 secs] [Times: user=0.10 
sys=0.00, real=0.02 secs]
173159.168: [GC 173159.168: [ParNew: 335438K->25731K(353920K), 0.0357620 
secs] 713888K->405274K(878208K), 0.0362750 secs] [Times: user=0.12 
sys=0.00, real=0.04 secs]
173168.286: [GC 173168.286: [ParNew: 340354K->20134K(353920K), 0.0225600 
secs] 719897K->400643K(878208K), 0.0230880 secs] [Times: user=0.06 
sys=0.01, real=0.02 secs]
173172.296: [GC 173172.296: [ParNew: 334758K->15053K(353920K), 0.0196610 
secs] 715267K->395562K(878208K), 0.0201770 secs] [Times: user=0.09 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
173179.419: [GC 173179.419: [ParNew: 329677K->22239K(353920K), 0.0269060 
secs] 710186K->403528K(878208K), 0.0274240 secs] [Times: user=0.12 
sys=0.00, real=0.02 secs]
173189.624: [GC 173189.624: [ParNew: 336863K->29527K(353920K), 0.0354300 
secs] 718152K->411721K(878208K), 0.0359290 secs] [Times: user=0.13 
sys=0.00, real=0.04 secs]
173199.332: [GC 173199.332: [ParNew: 344151K->22652K(353920K), 0.0313600 
secs] 726345K->407117K(878208K), 0.0318730 secs] [Times: user=0.09 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
173206.234: [GC 173206.235: [ParNew: 337276K->21251K(353920K), 0.0276060 
secs] 721741K->405716K(878208K), 0.0281380 secs] [Times: user=0.11 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
173213.212: [GC 173213.213: [ParNew: 335875K->23874K(353920K), 0.0343490 
secs] 720340K->410581K(878208K), 0.0348690 secs] [Times: user=0.13 
sys=0.00, real=0.04 secs]
173221.142: [GC 173221.142: [ParNew: 338498K->30114K(353920K), 0.0336290 
secs] 725205K->417820K(878208K), 0.0341060 secs] [Times: user=0.13 
sys=0.01, real=0.04 secs]
173229.352: [GC 173229.352: [ParNew: 344734K->22047K(353920K), 0.0212680 
secs] 732440K->410996K(878208K), 0.0217690 secs] [Times: user=0.08 
sys=0.00, real=0.02 secs]
173233.123: [GC 173233.123: [ParNew: 336671K->28934K(353920K), 0.0662500 
secs] 725620K->417883K(878208K), 0.0667880 secs] [Times: user=0.25 
sys=0.17, real=0.07 secs]
173238.572: [GC 173238.572: [ParNew: 343558K->15084K(353920K), 0.0414360 
secs] 732507K->411434K(878208K), 0.0419820 secs] [Times: user=0.13 
sys=0.00, real=0.04 secs]
173244.972: [GC 173244.972: [ParNew: 329702K->21166K(353920K), 0.0324990 
secs] 726052K->417517K(878208K), 0.0330620 secs] [Times: user=0.10 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
173251.914: [GC 173251.914: [ParNew: 335790K->25859K(353920K), 0.0349920 
secs] 732141K->422209K(878208K), 0.0356000 secs] [Times: user=0.12 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
173258.950: [GC 173258.951: [ParNew: 340483K->19646K(353920K), 0.0291690 
secs] 736833K->417832K(878208K), 0.0296990 secs] [Times: user=0.09 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
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secs] 732456K->417735K(878208K), 0.0258010 secs] [Times: user=0.10 
sys=0.00, real=0.02 secs]
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secs] 732359K->423181K(878208K), 0.0395380 secs] [Times: user=0.11 
sys=0.00, real=0.04 secs]
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secs] 737805K->427348K(878208K), 0.0421310 secs] [Times: user=0.17 
sys=0.01, real=0.04 secs]
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secs] 741972K->426113K(878208K), 0.0283570 secs] [Times: user=0.10 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
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sys=0.00, real=0.04 secs]
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secs] 741188K->426121K(878208K), 0.0342230 secs] [Times: user=0.13 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
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secs] 740745K->423452K(878208K), 0.0181520 secs] [Times: user=0.05 
sys=0.00, real=0.02 secs]
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secs] 738076K->422256K(878208K), 0.0208680 secs] [Times: user=0.05 
sys=0.00, real=0.02 secs]
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secs] 736880K->423752K(878208K), 0.0225970 secs] [Times: user=0.06 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
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secs] 738376K->427058K(878208K), 0.0252260 secs] [Times: user=0.09 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
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secs] 741682K->430685K(878208K), 0.0291230 secs] [Times: user=0.10 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
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sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
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sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
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sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
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secs] 751548K->435194K(878208K), 0.0282400 secs] [Times: user=0.09 
sys=0.00, real=0.02 secs]
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secs] 749818K->435600K(878208K), 0.0241380 secs] [Times: user=0.08 
sys=0.01, real=0.02 secs]
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secs] 750224K->435412K(878208K), 0.0218490 secs] [Times: user=0.08 
sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
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sys=0.00, real=0.02 secs]
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sys=0.00, real=0.02 secs]
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sys=0.00, real=0.02 secs]
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sys=0.00, real=0.01 secs]
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sys=0.00, real=0.02 secs]
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sys=0.00, real=0.03 secs]
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On 01/03/11 16:29, Jon Masamitsu wrote:
> For 6692906 to be the problem there needs to be a
> CMS concurrent phase in progress (marking, precleaning or
> sweeping) and a minor collection running (with
> UseParNewGC in use).  From the fragment of the gc log
> I could not tell for sure (maybe it was in the ... removed)
> but I don't think a concurrent phase was in progress
> so I would say it is not 6692906).  Did you try
> -XX:-UseParNewGC as was suggested?  Your minor
> pauses are not particularly long so maybe you
> could afford to try it.  6692906 will not happen
> without UseParNewGC.   Note you need to turn of
> UseParNewGC as it is the default for CMS.
>
> Look back through the log for any other
> ParNew (promotion failed) and see what happens
> in those cases (in you find one).  2+ hours is too
> long.
>
> The gentleman who would know best about this code
> is out of the office until the end of the week.  I'll talk
> to him about this to see if he remembers a recent
> fix that I don't.
>
>
> On 03/01/11 01:38, Bogdan Dimitriu wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> We're having a problem with garbage collection as described here:
>> http://forums.oracle.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=9345173 (I
>> apologise if posting links is not the right policy, but I prefer not to
>> duplicate data).
>>
>> We are going to try an upgrade to JRE 6u24 soon, but reading the release
>> notes for each of the versions since 6u20, I don't have much hope of
>> this upgrade fixing the problem.
>>
>> I have searched a bit on the Java bugs database and I've come across
>> something that looks similar to the problem I am experiencing:
>> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6692906, but I'm not
>> convinced this is exactly the same issue. This bug it seems will be
>> fixed in 6u25 (which I've read will be released late March or early 
>> April).
>>
>> The reason I'm leaning towards thinking this is a JVM bug is the fact
>> that the JVM can stay in the hung state (as described on the forum) for
>> 2+ hours until we kill the process.
>>
>> I was hoping to get an idea about this from the source :), so any hints
>> will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bogdan
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