occasional ParNew times of 15+ seconds

[David Ely]

Thanks for the response. It does seem to be related to the amount of data
promoted, but that isn't the only factor at play, Here's a plot of the
amount of data promoted per ParNew above the ParNew duration for a two hour
window:

[image: Inline image 2]

As you can see long ParNews imply a large promotion but not the reverse.
What second factor might be involved?

We're looking into what is different in the application at this time. The
majority of the heap and hence promoted data is part of a Berkeley DB Java
Edition database cache. The database cache holds all of the data and is
otherwise stable. There are other activities like database checkpointing
and cleaning that happen in the background, but those are going on all of
the time.

Are there any more JVM options that we could shed light on what's happening
during the ParNew collections?

David
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