RFR: JDK-8068589: GCCause should distinguish jcmd GC.run from System.gc()

Staffan Larsen staffan.larsen at oracle.com
Tue Jan 27 20:01:39 UTC 2015


> On 27 jan 2015, at 20:57, Kirk Pepperdine <kirk at kodewerk.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Jan 27, 2015, at 8:37 PM, Staffan Larsen <staffan.larsen at oracle.com <mailto:staffan.larsen at oracle.com>> wrote:
> 
>> 
>>> On 27 jan 2015, at 18:00, Kirk Pepperdine <kirk at kodewerk.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> On Jan 27, 2015, at 1:22 PM, Yasumasa Suenaga <yasuenag at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Staffan,
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you for your comments.
>>>> 
>>>> I've uploaded new webrev:
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ysuenaga/JDK-8068589/webrev.01/
>>>> 
>>>> I changed as below:
>>>> - GCCause::_jcmd_gc_run -> GCCause::_dcmd_gc_run
>>>> - GCCause string: "jcmd GC.run" -> "GC.run DCmd”
>>> 
>>> Can I suggest a shortened GCCause string to “DiagCmd”. At the very least I’d prefer to not have the “.” in the string.
>> 
>> I would have suggested “GC.run Diagnostic Command”, or “Diagnostic Command: GC.run”. I don’t know what problems a ‘.’ causes. “System.gc()” already has one.
> 
> Indeed it does and it and it has () and really wished neither were there. But unfortunately I missed the change from System to System.gc(). It complicates regex which may not seem like a big deal until you add in the entire GC log picture from 1.6.0 ’til 1.9.0 across all collectors and the possible flag combinations... it only adds (needlessly) to the mess.
> 
> Anyway, it’s a record in a GC log so I don’t see the value of GC.run. Certainly “DiagCmd" or even "Diagnostic Command” seems sufficient given the context.

Let’s go with “Diagnostic Command”, then.

/Staffan


> 
> Kind regards,
> Kirk Pepperdine

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