Bug in G1GC it performs Full GC when code cache is full resulting in overkill

[Thomas Schatzl]

Hi,

On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 05:10 +0300, Martin Makundi wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> We seem to be suffering from humongous and something else too... I
> will attempt to investigate how the cause can be captured to see if
> they can be made smaller.
> 
> Why does it need to do a stop the world instead of just making space
> for the items that need to be placed?

There is no reason for the current behavior other than that trying to
make space using a targeted mixed collection in this case is just not
implemented in G1.

Thomas