Hi Jenny, Attached are logs for runs with 8m and 16m region sizes. This is with the old version of the application (before the akka patch). I was pleasantly surprised by the 16m run and tried it a few times, but it seems these results are reliable.
Thanks, William On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 6:25 PM, yu.zh...@oracle.com <yu.zh...@oracle.com> wrote: > William, > > While this might not help the termination time, I hope adjusting the region > size can get rid of some of the humongous objects. > > It seems the humongous objects are filling old gen, about ~5g. The full gc > can clean 10g. Can you try increase region size to 8m or 16m? > > Thanks > > Jenny > > > > On 09/05/2016 03:02 AM, William Good wrote: >> >> Hi Thomas, >> >> Attached is a log file from a run with this morning's tip. I don't see >> any change unfortunately. >> >> I'll try with jdk9 tip later today since you mention there are more fixes >> there. >> >> configure summary looked like this, I think everything here is in order: >> >> Configuration summary: >> * Debug level: release >> * JDK variant: normal >> * JVM variants: server >> * OpenJDK target: OS: linux, CPU architecture: x86, address length: 64 >> >> Tools summary: >> * Boot JDK: java version "1.8.0_101" Java(TM) SE Runtime >> Environment (build 1.8.0_101-b13) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM >> (build 25.101-b13, mixed mode) (at /var/tmp/jdk1.8.0_101) >> * C Compiler: gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat-4) version 4.8.5 >> (at /usr/bin/gcc) >> * C++ Compiler: g++ (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat-4) version 4.8.5 >> (at /usr/bin/g++) >> >> Best, >> William >> >> >> On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 4:01 PM, Thomas Schatzl >> <thomas.scha...@oracle.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 15:08 +0200, William Good wrote: >>>> >>>> Thomas, >>>> >>>> More than happy to build and test with a patched JDK. Let me know >>>> what I need to do, at least what sources to grab (I think I can build >>>> it once I've got them). >>>> >>>> I learned this morning that my belief that significant tenuring >>>> wasn't taking place was possibly wrong. Our problem seems to have >>>> disappeared with an akka upgrade [1] and my guess for the relevant >>>> fix [2] indicates that unintended tenuring was occurring at some >>>> point (teh tenuring has never been significant enough for us to >>>> notice). However as long as I'm unable to reproduce with the new >>>> version I'm happy to continue testing using the older version I know >>>> to reproduce, as I don't think this G1 behavior is intended. >>> >>> this bug report makes me tend to believe that the suggested fix (for >>> JDK-8152438) will actually fix the issue. Let me explain: >>> >>> Every G1 thread has two work queues, one fixed size public one where >>> others can steal from, and one resizable one that is private. Work >>> (references) is first put into the public one, and then if it is full, >>> into the private one. >>> Threads first process their private buffers, so that others can steal >>> from the public one while they are working on it. >>> Due to some conditions it can happen that the public queues are already >>> completely empty, while one thread is still busy for a long time with >>> its private one. I.e. the work in the private queue can be so that it >>> never generates more work in the public queue that others can steal and >>> continue work from. So they wait. >>> >>> That can cause this high termination time. Of course this situation can >>> occur multiple times during a GC, so that every thread gets his fair >>> share of waiting :) >>> >>> That mentioned fix has been pushed into the http://hg.openjdk.java.net/ >>> jdk8u/jdk8u-dev/ repository. It should be a matter of pulling it. >>> The README-builds file in the repo has build instructions. >>> >>> It would be really nice if we could track down your problem to this >>> issue, or at least significantly improve it. (JDK9 has more significant >>> patches in that area iirc, but this one is probably the most >>> important). >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Thomas >>> >
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