Hi,

If you toss a GC log this way I maybe able to offer a suggestion.

Kind regards,
Kirk Pepperdine

> On Dec 21, 2017, at 10:01 PM, Gary Mulder <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> As a data point:
> 
> I'm managing (or more watching and daily sacrificing a goat to) a JVM using 
> Hotspot parallel GC with a 14GB heap and 4.5GB young generation. It is 
> randomly taking 30-90 seconds to do a minor GC due to scheduled quartz job 
> generates large XML document POST request that I suspect is around 4GB in 
> size. There is no VM memory pressure or swapping, as the VM has 16GB of RAM.
> 
> As a general rule I've found young generations of more than about 2GB and JVM 
> heap sizes of more than 8GB (i.e. large old generations) really do not 
> perform well with the Hotspot parallel GC when there is a mix of small 
> requests creating a lot of short-lived small objects and then a large slow 
> request hits the young generation. As I can't yet reproduce this problem in a 
> test environment I'm not sure whether the G1 collector might perform better.
> 
> Naturally, Azul System's Zing JVM would likely be a simple solution to 
> dealing with this, but as this is a retail platform under a change freeze, so 
> my goal is to keep it alive until Christmas...
> 
> Ho ho ho,
> Gary
> 
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