[CASSANDRA-504] Reduce GC overhead

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.4, 0.5

Environment

debian lenny amd64 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_12-b04)

• Assignee: Brandon Williams Assign to me
• Reporter: Brandon Williams

Authors

Brandon Williams

• Created: 21/Oct/09 18:21
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 21/Oct/09 18:48

Description

The Concurrent Mark Sweep GC is using about 30% of the cpu during inserts. This is not reported as GC time by jconsole, but can be observed by finding the thread with jstack and watching it via top. This is due to the CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=1 setting being passed to the JVM. Setting this to 1 is nonsensical, the default is 68.

I tested with some runs of stress.py with 200k inserts, and removing CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction causes the 30% cpu usage to disappear. ParNew GC time was 28-29s. Adding SurvivorRatio=128 and MaxTenuringThreshold=0 drops the GC time to 18-20s.