Tuning ShenandoahGC with 420 GB heaps

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On 3/5/19 2:07 PM, Edwin Graven wrote:
> Okay so THP is a bug, is there any change it will be possible to use LargePages instead of THP
> like we do with G1?? If you can use LargePages there won’t be any risk of using swap.
Yes, except the teeny-tiny detail that hugetlbfs support is also broken (argh):
  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8220162

If everything goes right, patches would hit jdk/jdk (development head) this week, and Roman would
backport them to 11u and 8u next week.

-Aleksey