Bug ID: JDK-6539517 CR 6186200 should be extended to perm gen allocation to prevent spurious OOM's from perm gen

JDK-6539517 : CR 6186200 should be extended to perm gen allocation to prevent spurious OOM's from perm gen

Type: Bug
Component: hotspot
Sub-Component: gc
Affected Version: hs10,6

Priority: P3
Status: Resolved
Resolution: Fixed
OS: generic
CPU: generic

Submitted: 2007-03-27
Updated: 2011-12-28
Resolved: 2008-05-21

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JDK 6	JDK 7	Other
6u14Fixed	7Fixed	hs13Fixed

Related Reports

Relates :	JDK-6327043 - 1.4.2_09: OutOfMemory errors
Relates :	JDK-6794422 - Perm gen expansion policy for concurrent collectors
Relates :	JDK-6736295 - SIGSEGV in product jvm, assertion "these are the only valid states during a mark sweep" in fastdebug
Relates :	JDK-6186200 - RFE: Stall allocation requests while heap is full and GC locker is held
Relates :	JDK-6789220 - CMS: intermittent timeout running nsk/regression/b4796926
Relates :	JDK-6729714 - intermittent failures of assert(orig_key != 0L,"jni weak reference cleared!!")
Relates :	JDK-6782457 - CMS: Livelock in CompactibleFreeListSpace::block_size().

Description

Synopsis says it all; refer to CR 6186200.

Comments

SUGGESTED FIX In the event that this bug fix is backported to 5uXX or 1.4.2_XX, please make sure to include the changes in CR 6782457 as well so as to avoid a regression. See 6782457 for further details.
10-12-2008
WORK AROUND Leave more slop in perm gen via -XX:PermSize=... -XX:MaxPermSize=... and keep JNI critical sections short/bounded.
27-03-2007
SUGGESTED FIX As in synopsis.
27-03-2007
EVALUATION The submitter is correct. Fix under construction. Will be available for backport as needed basis given that there's a reasonable workaround and the problem has never been reported from the field as far as we are aware.
27-03-2007