Fwd: GC Help

[amith pawar]

Hi all



I have following doubt about GC phase and can anyone suggest whether
thinking in this direction is right or not ?.



Current observation is that whenever a new is called in JAVA, memory is
allocated to that object and cleared with zero. This is similar to “CALLOC”
in C for the requested amount of size. I was testing with SPECJBB and found
that millions of objects are created and GC activity is seen for every
10-15 seconds. Allocated heap size is around 28 GB. This means 24-26GB of
memory is consumed within 10-15 seconds and millions objects are created in
this time window. I have copied below few lines from GC log file for
reference.



2017-08-08T06:30:30.243-0500: 449.366: [GC (Allocation Failure)
[PSYoungGen: 26427392K->890612K(27369472K)] 26634616K->1097837K(29466624K),
0.2550044 secs] [Times: user=3.43 sys=0.00, real=0.26 secs]

2017-08-08T06:30:44.136-0500: 463.260: [GC (Allocation Failure)
[PSYoungGen: 27318004K->919195K(27369472K)] 27525229K->1126419K(29466624K),
0.2509147 secs] [Times: user=3.32 sys=0.00, real=0.25 secs]

2017-08-08T06:30:55.167-0500: 474.290: [GC (Allocation Failure)
[PSYoungGen: 27346587K->935445K(27369472K)] 27553811K->1142669K(29466624K),
0.2487470 secs] [Times: user=3.40 sys=0.00, real=0.25 secs]

2017-08-08T06:31:05.805-0500: 484.929: [GC (Allocation Failure)
[PSYoungGen: 27362837K->920059K(27369472K)] 27570061K->1127283K(29466624K),
0.2394722 secs] [Times: user=3.23 sys=0.00, real=0.24 secs]



Is it good to have bulk zeroing feature/pass in GC where once sweeping is
done then do bulk zero ? If this is done then during allocation step
zeroing is not required as it is done in GC itself.

Not sure how much time GC will take for this.



I may not be the first person to think this way and thought to ask here.
Does JAVA spec allows this (such pass in GC)? if so any pointers on that.
It will help me to understand more.



Thanks

Amit Pawar
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