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Jonathan Ellis reassigned CASSANDRA-9242:
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Assignee: Ariel Weisberg
Assigning to Ariel for comment since we discussed briefly on IRC.
> Add PerfDisableSharedMem to default JVM params
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> Key: CASSANDRA-9242
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9242
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Config
> Reporter: Matt Stump
> Assignee: Ariel Weisberg
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> We should add PerfDisableSharedMem to default JVM params. The JVM will save
> stats to a memory mapped file when reaching a safepoint. This is performed
> synchronously and the JVM remains paused while this action takes place.
> Occasionally the OS will stall the calling thread while this happens
> resulting in significant impact to worst case JVM pauses. By disabling the
> save in the JVM these mysterious multi-second pauses disappear.
> The behavior is outlined in [this
> article|http://www.evanjones.ca/jvm-mmap-pause.html]. Another manifestation
> is significant time spent in sys during GC pauses. In [the linked
> test|http://cstar.datastax.com/graph?stats=762d9c2a-eace-11e4-8236-42010af0688f&metric=gc_max_ms&operation=1_write&smoothing=1&show_aggregates=true&xmin=0&xmax=110.77&ymin=0&ymax=10421.4]
> you'll notice multiple seconds spent in sys during the longest pauses.
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