ParNew - how does it decide if Full GC is needed

Jörg Wüthrich jwu at gmx.ch
Thu May 8 17:16:49 UTC 2014


Another possibility is perm gen that runs full. To see that, you'll have to switch to a more verbose log (use -XX:+PrintGCDetails), as Bernd mentioned.

Best regards, Jörg

On May 8, 2014 7:39:24 AM CEST, Bernd Eckenfels <bernd-2014 at eckenfels.net> wrote:
>Am Wed, 7 May 2014 21:10:40 -0400
>schrieb Vitaly Davidovich <vitalyd at gmail.com>:
>
>> However, I'd still appreciate it if someone could shed some light on
>> any other possibilities here.  I should also mention that I checked
>> perm gen and direct mem usage (I.e. direct byte bufs) and neither one
>> appears to be a suspect.
>
>It would be good if you turn on verbose garbage collection logging and
>post the logs somewhere, it is hard to tell anything otherwise. To me
>it looks like there is more promoted to old gen than you expect.
>
>Gruss
>Bernd
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