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Hi Evaristo,<br>
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Thanks for providing feedback on Generational ZGC. There is a JVM
flag that can be used to force the JVM to assume a given number of
cores: -XX:ActiveProcessorCount=<N><br>
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From the code:<br>
product(int, ActiveProcessorCount,
-1, \<br>
"Specify the CPU count the VM should use and report as
active") \<br>
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I've personally never used it before, but I see that when I try it
that ZGC scales the worker threads accordingly. Maybe this flag
could be useful for your use-case.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
StefanK<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2023-03-14 08:26, Evaristo José
Camarero wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">This environment is NOT based
on AWS. It is deployed on a custom K8S flavor on top of an
OpenStack virtualization layer.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The system has some level of
CPU overprovisioning, so that is the root cause of the
problem. App threads + Gen ZGC threads are using more CPU than
available. We will repeat the tests with more resources to
avoid the issue.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">My previous question is more
related with ZGC ergonomics, and to fully understand the best
approach when deploying in Kubernetes.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I saw that Gen ZGC is
calculating Runtime workers using: Nº CPU * 0,6 and max
concurrent workers per generation using Nº CPU * 0,25. In a
K8s POD you can define CPU limit (max CPU potentially
available for the POD) and CPU request (CPU booked for your
POD). The JVM is considering the CPU limit for ergonomics
implementation. In our case both values diverge quite a lot
(64 CPUs limit vs 32 CPU request), and makes a big difference
when ZGC decides number of workers. Usually with G1 we tune
number of ParallelGCThreads and ConcGCThreads in order to
adapt GC resources. My assumptions with Gen ZGC is that again
both parameters are the key ones to control used resources by
the collector.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">In our next test we will use:</div>
<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif;">ParallelGCThreads = CPU request * 0,6</span></span><br>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color:
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Arial, sans-serif;">ConcGCThreads = CPU request * 0,25</span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color:
rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif;">Under the assumption that system is
dimension to non surpass the request CPU usage</span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color:
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Arial, sans-serif;">Does it make sense? Any other
suggestion?</span></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span><span style="color:
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Arial, sans-serif;">Regards,</span></span></div>
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<div> En lunes, 13 de marzo de 2023, 10:18:01 CET, Peter Booth
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<div class="yiv2000093508">I’d recommend using either
Solarflare’s sysjitter tool or Gil Tene’s jhiccup to
quantify your OS jitter</div>
<div class="yiv2000093508">Can you capture the output of
vmstat 1 60 ?</div>
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are you using? Are they RHEL?</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="yiv2000093508">We
are trying latest ZGC EAB for testing an
Apache Geode Cluster (distributed Key
Value store with similar use cases that
Apache Cassandra)</div>
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are using K8s, and we have PODs with 32
cores request (limit with 60 cores) per
data node with 150GB heap per node.</div>
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-Xmx152000m</div>
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-Xms152000m</div>
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-XX:+UseZGC</div>
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-XX:SoftMaxHeapSize=136000m</div>
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-XX:ZAllocationSpikeTolerance=4.0
// We have some spiky workloads
periodically </div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="yiv2000093508">ZGC
is working great in regard GC pauses
with no allocation stalls at all during
almost all the time. We observe higher
CPU utilization that G1 (Around 20% for
a heavy workload using flag <span class="yiv2000093508">-XX:ZAllocationSpikeTolerance=4.0
that maybe is making ZGC more hungry
than needed. We will play further with
this</span>)</div>
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from time to time we see that Geode
Clusters are missing heartbeats between
and Geode logic shutdowns the JVM of the
node with missing heartbeats. We believe
that the main problem could be CPU
starvation, because some seconds before
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commented we are using K8S with PODs
that have 32 cores for request and 60
cores for limit (and it also true that
our K8s workers are close to the limit
in CPU utilization). ZGC is assuming on
booting that machine has 60 cores (as
logged). What is the best way to
configure the ZGC to provide a hint to
be tuned for a host with 32 cores
(basically the 60 cores limit is just to
avoid K8s produced throttling)? Is it
using ParallelGCThreads flag? Any other
thoughts?</div>
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