Metaspace - memory allocation

Jon Masamitsu jon.masamitsu at oracle.com
Thu Feb 4 19:02:09 UTC 2016



On 02/04/2016 06:41 AM, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
> Hi Timur,
>
> I believe you see the space for the compressed class data (Compressed 
> class space), which is by default 1GB and controlled by 
> -XX:CompressedClassSpaceSize . I think this area is semantically one 
> subarea of the metaspace, the other being non-class data.
>
> I am unsure about the difference between MaxMetaSpaceSize and 
> CompressedClassSpaceSize, but what I believe is that:
>
> - MaxMetaSpaceSize limits the amount of total committed (not reserved) 
> space
> - CompressedClassSpaceSize sets the amount of space to be reserved 
> (not committed) for compressed classes only.
>
> This would fit your NMT output, which says:
>
> "Class (reserved=1142808KB, committed=106520KB)"
>
> so, ~100M are committed. With a MaxMetaSpaceSize=256M - what you 
> specified - you would not be able to commit the whole 1GB, but hit the 
> limit far earlier.
>
> See also: 
> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/vm/gctuning/considerations.htm 
> (the section about UseCompressedClassesPointers)
>
> Please take this with a grain of salt. I am not sure I understand this 
> correctly and would value input from other developers.

Thomas,

No disagreement from me.  I think you described it
correctly.  Note that if you turn off UseCompressedClassPointers,
there will not be a separate space for the class metadata.

Jon

>
> Kind Regards, Thomas
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Timur Akhmadeev 
> <timur.akhmadeev at gmail.com <mailto:timur.akhmadeev at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I'm trying to figure out which parts of memory Hotspot can
>     allocate in HugePages on Linux (appears to be heap and code cache
>     by default, plus Metaspace with -XX:+UseLargePagesInMetaspace) and
>     noticed something I can't explain.
>
>     There's 1G allocation on the OS level in 4K pages that is
>     apparently attributed to Class metadata, although Metaspace is
>     maxed at a value much lower than 1G. Question: why?
>
>     [oracle at oel6u7 bin]$ grep -B 11 'KernelPageSize:        4 kB'
>     /proc/18906/smaps | grep '^Size:' | head
>     Size:        4 kB
>     Size:        4 kB
>     Size:     2764 kB
>     Size:    12288 kB
>     Size:  1036288 kB
>     Size:      128 kB
>     Size:        4 kB
>     Size:        4 kB
>     Size:        4 kB
>     Size:        8 kB
>
>     [oracle at oel6u7 bin]$ /home/oracle/jdk1.8.0_72/bin/jcmd 18906
>     VM.native_memory summary
>     18906:
>
>     Native Memory Tracking:
>
>     Total: reserved=2069703KB, committed=1032559KB
>     -     Java Heap (reserved=786432KB, committed=786432KB)
>                   (mmap: reserved=786432KB, committed=786432KB)
>     -         Class (reserved=1142808KB, committed=106520KB)
>                   (classes #13624)
>                   (malloc=2072KB #22966)
>                   (mmap: reserved=1140736KB, committed=104448KB)
>     -        Thread (reserved=56009KB, committed=56009KB)
>                   (thread #55)
>                   (stack: reserved=55512KB, committed=55512KB)
>                   (malloc=178KB #272)
>                   (arena=319KB #108)
>     -          Code (reserved=55407KB, committed=55407KB)
>                   (malloc=5487KB #7167)
>                   (mmap: reserved=49920KB, committed=49920KB)
>     -            GC (reserved=2600KB, committed=1748KB)
>                   (malloc=32KB #355)
>                   (mmap: reserved=2568KB, committed=1716KB)
>     -      Compiler (reserved=213KB, committed=213KB)
>                   (malloc=82KB #331)
>                   (arena=131KB #3)
>     -      Internal (reserved=4921KB, committed=4917KB)
>                   (malloc=4885KB #16137)
>                   (mmap: reserved=36KB, committed=32KB)
>     -        Symbol (reserved=17518KB, committed=17518KB)
>                   (malloc=14377KB #172159)
>                   (arena=3141KB #1)
>     -    Native Memory Tracking (reserved=3617KB, committed=3617KB)
>                   (malloc=149KB #2329)
>                   (tracking overhead=3468KB)
>     -   Arena Chunk (reserved=178KB, committed=178KB)
>                   (malloc=178KB)
>
>     [oracle at oel6u7 bin]$ /home/oracle/jdk1.8.0_72/bin/jcmd 18906
>     VM.native_memory detail | grep -A 10 'for Class'
>     [0x0000000100000000 - 0x0000000140000000] reserved 1048576KB for
>     Class from
>     [0x00007f71950e2ad2] ReservedSpace::initialize(unsigned long,
>     unsigned long, bool, char*, unsigned long, bool)+0xc2
>     [0x00007f71950e2d0b] ReservedSpace::ReservedSpace(unsigned long,
>     unsigned long, bool, char*, unsigned long)+0x1b
>     [0x00007f7194ec8300]
>     Metaspace::allocate_metaspace_compressed_klass_ptrs(char*,
>     unsigned char*)+0x40
>     [0x00007f7194eca7df] Metaspace::global_initialize()+0x4cf
>
>     [0x0000000100000000 - 0x0000000100c00000] committed 12288KB from
>     [0x00007f71950e2549] VirtualSpace::expand_by(unsigned long,
>     bool)+0x199
>     [0x00007f7194ec6766]
>     VirtualSpaceList::expand_node_by(VirtualSpaceNode*, unsigned long,
>     unsigned long)+0x76
>     [0x00007f7194ec9580] VirtualSpaceList::expand_by(unsigned long,
>     unsigned long)+0xf0
>     [0x00007f7194ec9713] VirtualSpaceList::get_new_chunk(unsigned
>     long, unsigned long, unsigned long)+0xb3
>     ...
>
>     [oracle at oel6u7 bin]$ head ../logs/gc.log
>     Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.72-b15) for linux-amd64 JRE
>     (1.8.0_72-b15), built on Dec 22 2015 22:00:07 by "java_re" with
>     gcc 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8)
>     Memory: 4k page, physical 3082784k(506980k free), swap
>     1257468k(1148276k free)
>     CommandLine flags: -XX:InitialCodeCacheSize=50331648
>     -XX:InitialHeapSize=49324544 -XX:MaxHeapSize=805306368
>     -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=268435456 -XX:MetaspaceSize=268435456
>     -XX:NativeMemoryTracking=detail -XX:+PrintGC
>     -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=50331648
>     -XX:+UseCompressedClassPointers -XX:+UseCompressedOops
>     -XX:+UseLargePages -XX:+UseLargePagesInMetaspace
>
>     -- 
>     Regards
>     Timur Akhmadeev
>
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