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Recently worked on a New Use case and during the performance validation of the product we observed High CPU Utilization and GC activity.

This is a web based application and creates incident tickets. The system metrics were captured and JVisual VM snapshots were also captured.

Load Test 1:

We started using the below parameters set related to GC (ConcMarkSweeGC):

-Xmx6G -Xms6G -XX:+UseCompressedOops -XX:NewRatio=2 -XX:MetaspaceSize=512m -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=512m -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC

Issue:

During the load tests we observed higher CPU Utilization trend, increase in Average Response times and high GC Activity.

The GC activity can be observed from the JVM snapshot as below:

To get more clear picture we have enabled GC logging (-Xlog:gc*,gc+phases=info:file=gc.log:time,pid,tags:filecount=10,filesize=20m) and repeated the load test.

The analysis of GC log (https://gceasy.io/) revealed the following:

Total Xmx set is 6GB, the young gen is at almost 2GB as indicated by NewRatio=2 (we have 6GB -XX:NewRatio=2 which means 2/3 of 6 GB = 4 GB for old generation and 1/3 of 6 GB = 2 GB for young generation).

The Key Performance Indicators are as below and ~46% of GC Pause Duration is in range of 400-500ms.

The GC log reveals that we have only Young GC occurrence and no old generation cycle observed during the test. CMS Collection phase statistics show below values.

Also, more than 99% of the time the reason for triggering GC is Allocation Failure.

Allocation Failure happens when there isn't enough free space to create new objects in Young generation. Allocation failures triggers Young GC.

Suggestions to resolve the issue with GC:

1. We can stay with same GC choice (this case CMS); by adjusting NewRatio=1 so ½ for young and ½ for old. 1 is the smallest value you can put in for CMS.
2. Better choice: G1GC may work better. Below values are recommended to be set for G1GC:

-XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:+UseStringDeduplication -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -XX:G1NewSizePercent=40

Note : (remember to remove the options: -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:NewRatio=2 when changing from CMS to G1GC)

Load Test 2:

We started using the below parameters set related to G1GC as proposed:

-Xmx6G -Xms6G -XX:+UseCompressedOops -XX:MetaspaceSize=512m -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=512m -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:+UseStringDeduplication -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -XX:G1NewSizePercent=40

The GC activity can be observed from the JVM snapshot as below:

The analysis of GC log for the above test is as below:

The Key Performance Indicators are as below and the GC Pause duration is in range of 200-300ms for ~52% GCs.

G1GC collection phase statistics are as below and are self-explanatory:

GC triggers are due to below causes. G1 Evacuation Pause – triggered when copying live objects from one set of regions to another set of regions.

G1 Humongous Allocation – These are allocations that are larger than 50% of the regions size in G1. Frequent humongous allocation may cause performance issues.

Also, we observe the total GC count has reduced to 75 from 194 as compared to CMS GC

Summary :

G1GC is clearly a better choice: lower GC pause time, lower Std Dev (more consistent time), lower CPU usage for GC (higher throughput).

Comparison table of both is as follows:

Note: The same might be achieved with CMS by setting the NewRatio=1 instead of 2. But we went ahead with G1GC as starting from JDK14 (Build 23+), the UseConcMarkSweepGC; support was removed in 14.0

The tests are not an exact comparison between CMS GC and G1GC, but we can reduce the GC activity significantly just by switching to G1GC.

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