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I am performing tuning benchmarks on a web application that is running on JBoss AS4.2.
What I have noticed is that the GC log starts always with a full GC at the server start-up
even before the application is deployed.
Can someone explain to me this behavior? There is plenty of free memory in the young,
tenured and PermGen. Why is this happening??
FWIW, here is the GC log:
15.464: [Full GC [PSYoungGen: 44456K->0K(458752K)] [ParOldGen: 0K->4385K(1572864K)]
44456K->4385K(2031616K) [PSPermGen: 11565K->11554K(262144K)], 0.9427300 secs]
64.382: [GC [PSYoungGen: 393216K->30720K(458752K)] 397601K->35105K(2031616K),
0.1768945 secs]
105.965: [GC [PSYoungGen: 423936K->38912K(458752K)] 428321K->43297K(2031616K),
0.4344201 secs]
Thanks in advance for any guidance.
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Just shooting this in the wild, but maybe something is calling System.gc()? I am not sure
why this is a performance problem for you, because at this point the server is only
starting and the application is just getting deployed, so no clients suffer from slow
response times, etc. But if its a problem maybe you could try using -XX:-DisableExplicitGC
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Thx *Radoslav Husar* for answering. However, I tried -XX:-DisableExplicitGC and it still
starts with a full GC. Even if its not a performace problem I would like to know the
cause. :)
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It depends also to the start parameter of the JVM, e.g. Xms Xmx and whether the complete
memory is allocated or virtual (see startup and boot.log to see full JVM params).
Also I recommend to use the latest JVM version of 1.5 (if you use this), but remember the
1.6 will be better and often faster (depend to the application).
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Here's my full JAVA OPTS configuration:
JAVA_OPTS="-Xms2g -Xmx2g -XX:NewSize=1g -XX:MaxNewSize=1g -XX:PermSize=256m
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xss256k -server -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps
-Xloggc:/X/X/X.log -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:+UseParallelOldGC -XX:ParallelGCThreads=4
-XX:+AggressiveHeap -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=/X/X/X
-XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled -XX:+CMSPermGenSweepingEnabled
-Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000 -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=3600000"
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You use conflicting GC settings and I don't know what the JVM prefere in this case.
See http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/vmoptions-jsp-140102.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/vmoptions-jsp-140102.html for detail on
options.
I prefere UseParallelGC (only not Old) or 'UseConcMarkSweep AND
CMSIncrementalMode' but the performance depends stron on the application memory
footprint :(
So I recommend to not think about optimizing without measure the app, you should drop
NewSize option and try to use NewParGC or CMS.
See what happen, you might watch with jstat or VisualVM.
Also I miss the information about the JVM version...
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Thank http://community.jboss.org/people/wdfink Wolf-Dieter Fink for your reply. However,
I can't understand what do you mean by conflicting GC?
What is the difference between ParallelGC and ParallelOldGc?? In the link you proposed it
is mentiod that ParallelOldGc automatically enable ParallelGC.
I am always measuring what's happening by viewing GC logs and HeapDumps.
The JVM version is build 1.5.0_12-b04. :)
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OldParallelGC is an old implementation and the New implementation (from 1.4.1) should be
better most times for JBoss and such long running servers. So drop -XX:UseParallelOldGC,
also I would drop -XX:+CMS stuff.
Also fixing the eden space (NewSize) might have bad sideeffects because of reducing the
OldGen.
I recommed to use the latest 1.5. JVM!
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Concerning the JVM 1.5, its an organizational decision. :(
However, lets get to the main point of this discussion. Why there is always a full GC at
the server startup? :) :) :-/
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As "Radoslav Husar" mentioned there might be a explicit GC request from a
deployed app (avoid with -XX:-DisableExplicitGC).
If not there is no exact point how a FullGC happen, it's a decision of the JVM depend
on memory consumption of the different spaces and the frequence of minor GC.
Maybe jstat gives a hint (see oracle jstat documentation).
It might disapear with a new JVM version.
In other words I don't know exactly and if it do not disturb my application, e.g.
happen very often, I don't care about ;)
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Okay. Thanks anyway. ;)
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The call to System.gc() is coded into the app server (or into one of the libraries it uses
- I know the the RMI libraries like to make GC calls), I suspect as it transitions from
bootstrap to the app server itself. I think it might also perform another GC or two after
deployment or other major initialization activity. I think the idea behind this was to
have the heap as clean of junk as possible before handling user requests. Of course, that
made sense years ago when when servers didn't have that much memory and heaps were
smaller. I have seen this behavior in JBoss AS release from 4.0.x up through 5.x
(haven't monitored GC behavior on 6). I don't know if AS 7 stil lexhibits this
behavior.
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I don't know if AS 7 stil lexhibits this behavior.
Right, AS7 does *not* do this anymore.
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Thanks http://community.jboss.org/people/peterj Peter. That's what I wanted to know.
:) :)
However, why when I use -XX:-DisableExplicitGC it still starts with a Full GC?
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Because -XX:-DisableExplictGC enables Systsem.gc() to work. You need to use
-XX:+DisableExplicitGC to turn off calls to System.gc().
If you read the column heading for the options table on the JVM option web page at
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/vmoptions-jsp-140102.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/vmoptions-jsp-140102.html, you will see
that is says "Option and Default Value". Thus by default DisaableExplicitGC is
off, you need to use the plus sign to turn it on.
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Thanks again Peter for your kind help. :)
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I invistigated about the -XX:UseParallelOldGC and found that it automatically enables the
UseParallelGc. Furthermore, It includes a compaction phase to reduce the heap
fragmentation and also perform major collections in parallel. Thanks in advance for
claryfing to me why you want me to drop it as you can see it appears usufel. :) :)
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Hi Mostafa,
mmm... that Full GC only takes 0.9427300 secs !! where's the problem? ;) hehehehe...
FullGCs are not a problem if they're not impacting on the user's response time.
Just start the server and run some stress testing to check the heap performance of your
application ( I remember of having FullGCs of 10 seconds in some stress testing, so it was
really a huuuuuuge "little" problem ! however, it was finally solved by
"playing" with some jvm parameters )
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