JEP 173: Remove Rarely-Used Combinations of Garbage Collectors

[Bengt Rutisson]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your feedback!

On 12/6/12 1:23 AM, Peter B. Kessler wrote:
> mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
>> Posted: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/173
>>
>> - Mark
>
> If the only use of SerialOld will be with ParallelScavenge + 
> SerialOld, then maybe we should check what the performance hit (GC 
> time, heap utilization, application throughput) is using 
> ParallelScavenge + ParallelOld, possibly with ParallelOld throttled 
> down to 1 worker thread.  (I understand that we can't remove the code 
> for SerialOld because it backs CMS, but we could improve the user 
> experience by not letting people choose sub-optimal configurations.)  
> Similarly, if we could start weaning users off of DefNew we might 
> eventually be able to remove the code for it.

These are very good observations. In fact I look at the currently 
proposed JEP as a first step in a direction towards much fewer GC 
combinations. I think what you suggest is a good path forward, but there 
may be other step we want to take as well.

> It would help the write-up if the *supported* configurations were listed.

Good point. I'll try to write that up and add it to the JEP.

Thanks,
Bengt

>
>             ... peter