Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory() with ZGC

[Per Liden]

On 6/4/21 5:25 PM, Mike Rettig wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 11:25 AM Per Liden <per.liden at oracle.com 
> <mailto:per.liden at oracle.com>> wrote:
> 
>     If "Proactive" GCs kick more frequently than the ZCollectionInterval
>     you
>     want to use, then disabling it (-XX:-ZProactive) is a good idea.
> 
> 
> As you said before, ZProactive collections run when impact should be 
> minimal. Is there any other criteria for it to run? I disabled it 

It only runs if it thinks it will have minimal impact.

> because it was too aggressive. It was running frequently even if the 
> heap usage was really low. Is there a heap usage (current heap not -Xmx) 
> threshold?  I think that could be even better than a max pause 
> threshold.  If I could configure proactive collections to run only if 
> the current heap usage > 75% then GC performance would be ideal. ZGC 
> would be able to grow/shrink the heap as needed while also minimizing 
> the impact on the app.

Check. Yes, proactive GCs can currently only be turned on or off, i.e. 
there is currently no other configuration option to influence it.

/Per