Information on how to parse/interpret ZGC Logs

Prabhash Rathore prabhashrathore at gmail.com
Sun Feb 9 06:55:33 UTC 2020


Hi Per,

Thanks for your reply!

About ZGC logs, in general I am trying to understand following:

   - What are the full pause times?
   - How many such pause per unit time?
   - Anything else which helps me eliminate GC as cause for high
   application latency.

This is how I have configured ZGC logging at JVM level, wondering if I
should add other tags like Safepoint to get more details about GC stats:
-Xlog:gc*=debug:file=gc.log

All JVM flas used in my application:
-Xms130G -Xmx130G
-Xlog:gc*=debug:file=/somedir/gc.log:time:filecount=10,filesize=67108864
-XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError
-XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseZGC -XX:ConcGCThreads=48
-XX:ParallelGCThreads=96 -XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow

It's a large machine with 96 threads and 196 GB RAM.

I have -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch configured as one another option. With
AlwaysPreTouch option, I see in Linux top command shows a very high shared
and resident memory. My max heap size is configured as 130 GB but I see
shared memory is shown as 388 GB and Resident memory as 436 GB. On the
other hand, total virtual memory for this process in top is shown as 17.1
tera byte. How is this possible? My whole machine size is 196 GB (is this
accounting for things swapped out to disk). I did see without
AlwaysPretouch, numbers look close to the heap size. Trying to understand
why with PreTouch, process memory is shown was higher than configured size?
I understand shared memory has all shared libs mapped out but how can it be
such. a large size?

Regarding high GC pause time, I did notice that my machine was low on
memory and it was swapping, hence slowing down everything. For now I have
disabled Swappines completely with Kernel VM tunable but I am still trying
to find the actual cause of why swapping kicked in. This machine only runs
this particular Java applicaion which has 130 GB heap size. Other than
heap, I still have 66 GB memory available on host. Trying to figure out if
there is a native memory leak. If you have any inputs on this then please
share.

Thanks!
Prabhash Rathore

On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 2:35 AM Per Liden <per.liden at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 2020-02-03 06:52, Prabhash Rathore wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > We have decided to use ZGC Garbage Collector for our Java application
> > running on Java 11. I was wondering if there are any tools or any
> > documenation on how to interpret ZGC logs.
>
> Is there something in particular in the logs you're wondering about?
>
> >
> > I found following statistics in ZGC log which as per my understanding
> shows
> > a very large allocation stall of 3902042.342 milliseconds. It will be
> > really great if I can get some help to understand this further.
>
> I can see that you've had making times that is more than an hour long,
> which suggests that something in your system is seriously wrong (like
> extremely overloaded or an extremely slow disk that you log to... just
> guessing here). I think you need to have a broader look at the health of
> the system before we can draw any conclusion from the GC logs.
>
> cheers,
> Per
>
> >
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000] === Garbage Collection Statistics
> >
> =======================================================================================================================
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]
> >                   Last 10s              Last 10m              Last 10h
> >           Total
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]
> >                   Avg / Max             Avg / Max             Avg / Max
> >          Avg / Max
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]   Collector: Garbage Collection Cycle
> >                 0.000 / 0.000      7789.187 / 7789.187  12727.424 /
> > 3903938.012  1265.033 / 3903938.012   ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]  Contention: Mark Segment Reset Contention
> >                    0 / 0                10 / 1084            176 / 15122
> >         42 / 15122       ops/s
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]  Contention: Mark SeqNum Reset Contention
> >                     0 / 0                 0 / 5                 0 / 31
> >           0 / 31          ops/s
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]  Contention: Relocation Contention
> >                    0 / 0                 0 / 3                 1 / 708
> >          7 / 890         ops/s
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]    Critical: Allocation Stall
> >                 0.000 / 0.000         0.000 / 0.000      6714.722 /
> > 3902042.342  6714.722 / 3902042.342   ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]    Critical: Allocation Stall
> >                     0 / 0                 0 / 0                12 / 4115
> >           2 / 4115        ops/s
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]    Critical: GC Locker Stall
> >                0.000 / 0.000         0.000 / 0.000         3.979 / 6.561
> >      1.251 / 6.561       ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]    Critical: GC Locker Stall
> >                    0 / 0                 0 / 0                 0 / 1
> >          0 / 1           ops/s
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]      Memory: Allocation Rate
> >                    0 / 0                 6 / 822             762 / 25306
> >       1548 / 25306       MB/s
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]      Memory: Heap Used After Mark
> >                     0 / 0             92170 / 92170         89632 /
> 132896
> >       30301 / 132896      MB
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]      Memory: Heap Used After Relocation
> >                     0 / 0             76376 / 76376         67490 /
> 132928
> >        8047 / 132928      MB
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]      Memory: Heap Used Before Mark
> >                    0 / 0             92128 / 92128         84429 / 132896
> >       29452 / 132896      MB
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]      Memory: Heap Used Before Relocation
> >                    0 / 0             86340 / 86340         76995 / 132896
> >       15862 / 132896      MB
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]      Memory: Out Of Memory
> >                    0 / 0                 0 / 0                 0 / 0
> >          0 / 0           ops/s
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]      Memory: Page Cache Flush
> >                     0 / 0                 0 / 0                62 / 2868
> >          16 / 2868        MB/s
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]      Memory: Page Cache Hit L1
> >                    0 / 0                 7 / 2233            277 / 11553
> >        583 / 11553       ops/s
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]      Memory: Page Cache Hit L2
> >                    0 / 0                 0 / 0                20 / 4619
> >          59 / 4619        ops/s
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]      Memory: Page Cache Miss
> >                    0 / 0                 0 / 0                15 / 1039
> >           3 / 1297        ops/s
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]      Memory: Undo Object Allocation Failed
> >                    0 / 0                 0 / 0                 0 / 24
> >           0 / 24          ops/s
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]      Memory: Undo Object Allocation
> > Succeeded                  0 / 0                 0 / 3                 1
> /
> > 708               7 / 890         ops/s
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]      Memory: Undo Page Allocation
> >                     0 / 0                 0 / 12               30 / 3464
> >           7 / 3464        ops/s
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]       Phase: Concurrent Destroy Detached
> > Pages             0.000 / 0.000         0.004 / 0.004        11.675 /
> > 1484.886      1.155 / 1484.886    ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]       Phase: Concurrent Mark
> >                0.000 / 0.000      7016.569 / 7016.569  11758.365 /
> > 3901893.544  1103.558 / 3901893.544   ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]       Phase: Concurrent Mark Continue
> >                 0.000 / 0.000         0.000 / 0.000      1968.844 /
> 3674.454
> >    1968.844 / 3674.454    ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]       Phase: Concurrent Prepare Relocation
> > Set             0.000 / 0.000       453.732 / 453.732     364.535 /
> > 7103.720     39.453 / 7103.720    ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]       Phase: Concurrent Process Non-Strong
> > References      0.000 / 0.000         2.003 / 2.003         2.738 /
> 34.406
> >         2.253 / 34.406      ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]       Phase: Concurrent Relocate
> >                0.000 / 0.000       261.822 / 261.822     335.954 /
> 2207.669
> >      45.868 / 2207.669    ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]       Phase: Concurrent Reset Relocation
> Set
> >                0.000 / 0.000         6.083 / 6.083        13.489 /
> 1128.678
> >       3.574 / 1128.678    ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]       Phase: Concurrent Select Relocation
> > Set              0.000 / 0.000         6.379 / 6.379        97.530 /
> > 1460.679     18.439 / 1460.679    ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]       Phase: Pause Mark End
> >                 0.000 / 0.000         4.420 / 4.420         6.219 /
> 26.498
> >       6.474 / 40.883      ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.883+0000]       Phase: Pause Mark Start
> >                 0.000 / 0.000        14.836 / 14.836       11.893 /
> 28.350
> >      11.664 / 41.767      ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.884+0000]       Phase: Pause Relocate Start
> >                 0.000 / 0.000        13.411 / 13.411       30.849 /
> 697.344
> >       11.995 / 697.344     ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.884+0000]    Subphase: Concurrent Mark
> >                0.000 / 0.000      7015.793 / 7016.276  18497.265 /
> > 3901893.075  1690.497 / 3901893.075   ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.884+0000]    Subphase: Concurrent Mark Idle
> >                 0.000 / 0.000         1.127 / 13.510        1.292 /
> 219.999
> >        1.280 / 219.999     ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.884+0000]    Subphase: Concurrent Mark Try Flush
> >                0.000 / 0.000         1.295 / 2.029        47.094 /
> 34869.359
> >      4.797 / 34869.359   ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.884+0000]    Subphase: Concurrent Mark Try Terminate
> >                0.000 / 0.000         1.212 / 14.847        1.760 /
> 3799.238
> >       1.724 / 3799.238    ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.884+0000]    Subphase: Concurrent References Enqueue
> >                0.000 / 0.000         0.009 / 0.009         0.022 / 1.930
> >      0.017 / 2.350       ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.884+0000]    Subphase: Concurrent References Process
> >                0.000 / 0.000         0.599 / 0.599         0.768 / 23.966
> >       0.495 / 23.966      ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.884+0000]    Subphase: Concurrent Weak Roots
> >                0.000 / 0.000         0.882 / 1.253         1.155 / 21.699
> >       1.077 / 23.602      ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.884+0000]    Subphase: Concurrent Weak Roots
> > JNIWeakHandles          0.000 / 0.000         0.301 / 0.943
>  0.308 /
> > 10.868        0.310 / 23.219      ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.884+0000]    Subphase: Concurrent Weak Roots
> > StringTable             0.000 / 0.000         0.289 / 0.496
>  0.390 /
> > 12.794        0.363 / 22.907      ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.884+0000]    Subphase: Concurrent Weak Roots
> > VMWeakHandles           0.000 / 0.000         0.230 / 0.469
>  0.329 /
> > 21.267        0.331 / 23.135      ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.884+0000]    Subphase: Pause Mark Try Complete
> >                0.000 / 0.000         0.000 / 0.000         0.501 / 4.801
> >      0.480 / 17.208      ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.884+0000]    Subphase: Pause Remap TLABS
> >                0.000 / 0.000         0.252 / 0.252         0.195 / 0.528
> >      0.226 / 3.451       ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.884+0000]    Subphase: Pause Retire TLABS
> >                 0.000 / 0.000         1.195 / 1.195         1.324 / 5.082
> >        1.408 / 11.219      ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.884+0000]    Subphase: Pause Roots
> >                0.000 / 0.000         6.968 / 10.865       12.329 /
> 693.701
> >      6.431 / 1300.994    ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.884+0000]    Subphase: Pause Roots
> > ClassLoaderDataGraph              0.000 / 0.000         4.819 / 8.232
> >    9.635 / 693.405       3.476 / 693.405     ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.884+0000]    Subphase: Pause Roots CodeCache
> >                0.000 / 0.000         0.842 / 2.731         0.996 / 83.553
> >       0.780 / 83.553      ms
> > [2020-02-02T22:37:36.884+0000]    Subphase: Pause Roots JNIHandles
> >                 0.000 / 0.000         1.171 / 6.314         0.866 /
> 17.875
> >       0.837 / 25.708      ms
> >
> >
> > Thank you!
> > Prabhash Rathore
> >
>


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