Manuel Dominguez Sarmiento created DAEMON-333:
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Summary: Stop abusing System.gc() on Commons Daemon jsvc shutdown
Key: DAEMON-333
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DAEMON-333
Project: Commons Daemon
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Jsvc
Affects Versions: 1.0.15
Reporter: Manuel Dominguez Sarmiento
The shutdown sequence invokes System.gc() several times. I'm not sure why this
would be necessary, especially considering that System.gc() is only a hint and
the JVM will not necessarily do anything when this method is invoked.
Especially if -XX:+DisableExplicitGC is used, which is fairly common practice
in production environments.
In our case, we use rather huge heaps (over 100 GB) so shutdown can take
forever, depending on how much uncollected garbage there is in the JVM heap.
We've always used -XX:+DisableExplicitGC so this was never apparent, however we
decided to stop using -XX:+DisableExplicitGC after careful code review showed
none of our apps or supporting libraries are using System.gc() and sometimes we
want to trigger GC manually from monitoring tools (Jconsole, VisualVM, etc.) -
but we found the hard way that Commons Daemon / jsvc is using System.gc() on
shutdown, preventing the speedy shutdown we were used to.
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