JDK-8232620 : General sampling heap allocation event
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: hotspot
  • Sub-Component: jfr
  • Affected Version: 14
  • Priority: P3
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • Submitted: 2019-10-18
  • Updated: 2021-03-09
  • Resolved: 2021-03-09
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JDK 16
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JDK-8257602 - Introduce JFR Event Throttling and new jdk.ObjectAllocationSample event (enabled by default)
Description
After seeing first hand how useful allocation profiling events are in production, but also how extremely expensive they are, we really need to introduce a less costly sampling heap allocation event. One that gives a statistically accurate picture of how much memory is allocated along with the stack traces, but that has a more configurable emission rate. For certain high allocation loads, the recordings can get quite large and they can also introduce quite a bit of overhead.
Comments
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/738
19-10-2020
Taking this one step further, we'll go with a simple control for the event emission rate. This is similar to the approach we've taken with the exception profiler that we've implemented in Datadog's continuous profiler for Java.
02-10-2020
The new event should operate under the same principles as https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/331. A new setting would be introduced which would be the average allocated bytes between the events. We would need to do some in-house testing to figure out what a reasonable default setting would be for the profiling template. I would suggest disabling the inside/outside of TLAB events in the profiling template after this event has been introduced.
21-04-2020