methoddata grows in metaspace jdk 1.8.0_40 64bit

[Jon Masamitsu]

Can you run your test with the latest jdk8 and the latest jdk9?

And does

> But the MethodData per class keeps growing in 20MBs.

mean that the amount of MethodData continues to grow as long as the
application is running?

Jon

On 3/23/2016 9:25 AM, Dillip Pattnaik wrote:
> hi,
> We were running an application in java 7 with lot of reflection and 
> custom class loader. The perm gen normally reaches a high threshold 
> and stabilizes. But once we moved to 1.8.0_40 64 bit recently, the 
> metaspace keeps growing. After using gc class_stat we found that the 
> number of classes loaded are constant. But the MethodData per class 
> keeps growing in 20MBs. Could you please advise why the method data is 
> growing and if there is a way to debug it more and find out what is 
> causing it?
>
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