Young generation configuration

[Tony Printezis]

Jeff,

Hi. I had a very brief look at your logs. Yes, your app does seem to 
need to copy quite a lot (I don't think I've ever seen 1-2GB of data 
being copied in age 1!!!). From what I've seen from the space sizes, 
you're doing the right thing (i.e., you're consistent with what we 
talked about during the talk): you have quite large young gen and a 
reasonably sized old gen. But the sheer amount of surviving objects is 
what's getting you. How much larger can you make your young gen? I think 
in this case, the larger, the better.  Maybe, you can also try 
MaxTenuringThreshold=1. This goes against our general advice, but this 
might decrease the amount of objects being copied during young GCs, at 
the expense of more frequent CMS cycles...

Tony

jeff.lloyd at algorithmics.com wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>  
>
> I’m new to this list and I have a few questions about tuning my young 
> generation gc.
>
>  
>
> I have chosen to use the CMS garbage collector because my application 
> is a relatively large reporting server that has a web front end and 
> therefore needs to have minimal pauses. 
>
>  
>
> I am using java 1.6.0_16 64-bit on redhat 5.2 intel 8x3GHz and 64GB ram.
>
>  
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> The machine is dedicated to this JVM.
>
>  
>
> My steady-state was calculated as follows:
>
> -          A typical number of users logged in and viewed several reports
>
> -          Stopped user actions and performed a manual full GC
>
> -          Look at the amount of heap used and take that number as the 
> steady-state memory requirement
>
>  
>
> In this case my heap usage was ~10GB.  In order to handle variance or 
> spikes I sized my old generation at 15-20GB.
>
>  
>
> I sized my young generation at 32-42GB and used survivor ratios of 1, 
> 2, 3 and 6.
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>  
>
> My goal is to maximize throughput and minimize pauses.  I’m willing to 
> sacrifice ram to increase speed.
>
>  
>
> I have attached several of my many gc logs.  The file gc_48G.txt is 
> just using CMS without any other tuning, and the results are much 
> worse than what I have been able to accomplish with other settings.  
> The best results are in the files gc_52G_20Gold_32Gyoung_2sr.txt and 
> gc_57G_15Gold_42Gyoung_1sr.txt.
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>  
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> The problem is that some of the pauses are just too long.
>
>  
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> Is there a way to reduce the pause time any more than I have it now?
>
> Am I heading in the right direction?  I ask because the default 
> settings are so different than what I have been heading towards.
>
>  
>
> The best reference I have found on what good gc logs look like come 
> from brief examples presented at JavaOne this year by Tony Printezis 
> and Charlie Hunt.  But I don’t seem to be able to get logs that 
> resemble their tenuring patterns.
>
>  
>
> I think I have a lot of medium-lived objects instead of nice 
> short-lived ones.
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>  
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> Are there any good practices for apps with objects like this?
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>  
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> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>
>  
>
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