Initial mark times

[Bernd Eckenfels]

Hello Florian,

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Florian Binder <java at java4.info> wrote:
> The initial marking is done single threaded and therefore takes a lot of
> time.
> Your initial-mark phase ended at 11:05:33. It stopped the world for
> about 12 seconds (started at 11:05:21).
> The "Finished cms..." information is for the concurrent marking phase
> which took 0.61 sec.

Oh ok, makes sense. That was missleading me. Yes right, it is single
threaded sadly.

> Have you tried to reduce your young generation? Maybe 1gb is enough?

It is unfortunatelly not a system where I can experiment. I already
reduced it a bit, but I guess I really
have to go to 10s frequency (and adjust –XX:CMSWaitDuration= ).

Greetings
Bernd