Garbage Collection, Tuning and Monitoring JVM in EBS 11i and R12

Siddharth Gandhi
Nov 2008
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Contents
Garbage Collection, Tuning and Monitoring JVM in EBS 11i and R12 .......................... 1
Introduction .......................................................................................... ................... 3
Firt Ste! .......................................................................................................... ...... "
Me#or$ #anage#ent ............................................................................................. "
Garbage Collection Conce!t .................................................................................. %
&e'inition ....................................................................................................... ....... %
Generation ................................................................................................. ......... %
T$!e o' Collector ............................................................................................... (
Meaure#ent ....................................................................................................... (
Fe) notable JVM !ara#eter ................................................................................... *
Monitor t+e JVM ............................................................................. ........................ 1,
Future c+ange - JRoc.it ........................................................................................ 13
Re'erence and /uote .......................................................................................... 1"
0!!endi1 .................................................................................... ........................... 1%
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Introduction
!n "an# o$ our %u&&ort tic'et% (e "ight have encountered &er$or"ance and "e"or# i%%ue% (ith the
"iddle)tier and the ubi*uitou% 2a3a.lang.4ut4'Me#or$Error+%, %tate"ent in our %tac' trace-
.e "ight be encountering the%e &er$or"ance i%%ue% $or "an# rea%on% i"&acted b# hard(are
+%&eci$ication%, net(or'ing etc, or %o$t(are +/S, a&&lication ver%ion%0&atche%0&ara"eter%, or 1u%t b#
e2ternal &ara"eter% li'e u%er behavior, current nu"ber o$ active u%er%, band(idth etc-
!n the /racle 3&&lication 4develo&"ent5 %&ace, &lugging in the%e &er$or"ance and "e"or# i%%ue% (ill
"a1orl# boil do(n to JVM tuning, %to&&ing "e"or# lea'%, J6BC o&ti"i7ation% and $e( other%-
!n thi% (hite&a&er, (e (ill brie$ u&on
Garbage Collection,
Tuning JVM $or better &er$or"ance,
8nder%tanding $e( o$ the JVM tuning &ara"eter% &rovided in Jserv.properties and opmn.xml $ile
Monitoring JVM
The document focuses only on the OACoreGroup JVM and not considers the JVM settings for other
Oracle services like orms ! "eports# $iscoverer# Configurator etc. Also assumed is that the reader has
some familiarity %ith Java and &'(usiness )uite **i and "elease *+
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First Steps
9uoting Sun5% docu"entation, /ut o$ Me"or# +//M, error% are u%uall# thro(n:
,- %hen the Java Virtual Machine cannot allocate an o./ect .ecause it is out of memory# and no more
memory could .e made availa.le .y the gar.age collector.;
3nd %o $ollo(% the u%ual $i2 o$ increa%ing the JVM hea& %i7e,
java -Xms1024M -Xmx1024M .
But in thi% *uic')$i2 (orld, (e co"$ortabl# $orget the $ollo(ing t(o i"&ortant *ue%tion%,
1. .h# Java Virtual Machine i% out o$ "e"or#<
2. .h# garbage collector i% not able to "a'e "ore "e"or# available<
=et5% re"e"ber the $act that &h#%ical "e"or# i% li"ited and on the other hand there are ea%ier, $a%ter and
chea&er a&&roache% to con%ider then u&grading the hard(are-
So be$ore (e &roceed to tune our JVM%, let5% bru%h our ba%ic% $or "e"or# "anage"ent and role o$
Garbage Collection +GC,
Meor! anageent
>Me"or# "anage"ent i% the &roce%% o$ recogni7ing (hen allocated ob1ect% are no longer needed, de)
allocating +$reeing, the "e"or# u%ed b# %uch ob1ect%, and "a'ing it available $or %ub%e*uent allocation>
E2&licit V%- 3uto"atic Me"or# Manage"ent
Java e"&lo#% auto"atic "e"or# "anage"ent unli'e C and $e( other &rogra""ing language% (here
"e"or# "anage"ent i% develo&er re%&on%ibilit#- E2&licit "anage"ent "an# a ti"e% re%ult% into
une2&ected or erroneou% &rogra" behavior and cra%he%-
.herea% auto"atic "anage"ent i% handled b# a &rogra" called a garbage collector +GC,- GC
auto"aticall# $ree% all "e"or# no longer re$erenced-
There are ba%icall# t(o (a#% #ou can alter the JVM5% behavior to i"&rove &er$or"ance- ?ir%tl#, #ou can
in$luence "e"or# u%e b# changing ho( "e"or# i% allocated and organi7ed b# the JVM- Secondl#, #ou
can in$luence ho( garbage collection i% &er$or"ed-

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Garbage Collection Concepts
"e#inition
/b1ect% that are re$erenced are %aid to be live- /b1ect% that are no longer re$erenced are con%idered
dead and are ter"ed garbage- The &roce%% o$ $inding and reclai"ing the %&ace u%ed b# the%e ob1ect% i%
'no(n a% gar.age collection-
The ti"ing o$ garbage collection i% u& to the garbage collector-
Generations
Me"or# in the Java @otS&ot virtual "achine i% organi7ed into three generation%A
1. Boung generation,
2. /ld generation+or Tenured,, and
3. Cer"anent generation +or Cer",
Thi% generational gar.age collection, ta'e% advantage o$ the ob%ervation that, "o%t &rogra"% createA
Man# ob1ect% that have %hort live% +$or e2a"&le, iterator% and local variable%,-
So"e ob1ect% that have ver# long li$eti"e% +$or e2a"&le, high level &er%i%tent ob1ect%,
The young generation con%i%t% o$ an Deden %&aceD and t(o D%urvivor %&ace%-D The VM initiall# a%%ign% all
ob1ect% to the &den %&ace, and "o%t ob1ect% die there- .hen the young generation area $ill% u&, it cau%e%
Minor Gar.age Collection- 3n# ob1ect% %urvived a$ter Minor GC i% "oved to Tenured Generation-
3nd (hen Tenured Generation area $ill% u& it cau%e% Ma/or Gar.age Collection i-e- ?ull GC-
Ma1or GC i% %lo( and e2&en%ive a% co"&ared to Minor GC %ince it involve% evaluating all live ob1ect%-
The permanent generation hold% ob1ect% that the JVM $ind% convenient to have the garbage collector
"anage, %uch a% ob1ect% de%cribing cla%%e% and "ethod%, a% (ell a% the cla%%e% and "ethod%
the"%elve%-
Figure 1
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T!pes o# Collectors
To reclai" "e"or#, @otS&ot ha% $our di$$erent collector% a% o$ J2SE E-0 +and the o&tion to enable the",A
The de$ault or %erial collector
Through&ut collector +)XX:+UseParallelGC,
Concurrent lo( &au%e collector +)XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC,
!ncre"ental collector +)XX:+UseTrainGC,
The default collector i% a %erial collector that pauses the a&&lication during "inor and "a1or collection%- !$
the ho%t "achine ha% a %ingle CC8, the %erial collector (ill li'el# be a% $a%t or $a%ter a% the other
collector%-
The throughput collector u%e% the %a"e collection "echani%" a% the %erial collector $or "a1or collection%,
but i"&le"ent% a &arallel "inor collector $or the #oung generation %&ace-
/n the other hand, the concurrent lo%'pause collector atte"&t% to &er$or" "o%t o$ the (or' o$ a "a1or
collection (ithout interru&ting #our a&&lication +pauses are lo(0%hort,-
?inall# the incremental collector, b# care$ul boo')'ee&ing, collect% 1u%t a &ortion o$ the tenured generation
at each "inor collection, tr#ing to %&read the large &au%e o$ a "a1or collection over "an# "inor
collection%- $o%e&er, t'e increental collector is deprecated and %ill e&entuall! be reo&ed(
.hich collector (or'% be%t $or #our a&&lication de&end% on the load o$ the a&&lication and the ho%t
%#%te"- @o(ever, unle%% #ou have a %#%te" (ith "ulti&le CC8%, tuning "e"or# con$iguration rather than
garbage collection i% li'el# to #ield &er$or"ance gain%-
Measureent
Be$ore (e con%ider the "etric%, let5% under%tand variou% &ara"eter%, on (hich it5% evaluated-
Throughput i% the &ercentage o$ total ti"e not %&ent in garbage collection, con%idered over long &eriod%
o$ ti"e-
0auses are the ti"e% (hen an a&&lication a&&ear% unre%&on%ive becau%e garbage collection i% occurring-
8%uall# tolerable, but in an interactive gra&hic% &rogra" even %hort &au%e% "a# negativel# a$$ect the u%er
e2&erience-
0romptness i% the ti"e bet(een (hen an ob1ect beco"e% dead and (hen the "e"or# beco"e%
available, an i"&ortant con%ideration $or di%tributed %#%te"%, including re"ote "ethod invocation +M!,-
ootprint i% the (or'ing %et o$ a &roce%%, "ea%ured in &age% and cache line%- /n %#%te"% (ith li"ited
&h#%ical "e"or# or "an# &roce%%e%, $oot&rint "a# dictate %calabilit#-
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Through&ut and $oot&rint are be%t "ea%ured u%ing "etric% &articular to the a&&lication- /n the other
hand, &au%e% due to garbage collection are ea%il# e%ti"ated b# in%&ecting the diagno%tic out&ut o$ the
virtual "achine it%el$-
No( let5% under%tand that ho( and (hat garbage collection detail% are generated in the E)Bu%ine%% Suite-
Table 1 belo( brie$% ho( and (here to %et the &ara"eter% in the a&&ro&riate $ile to generate the GC data
and vie( it $or %&eci$ic E)Bu%ine%% Suite ver%ion
Table 1
Suite Generate t'e GC data Vie% t'e output )#ile location*
11i Crovide the co""and line argu"ent )verbose:gc in the $ile
12A)3O"AC4&35OM&6Apache6Jserv6etc6/serv.properties- ?or
in%tance,
wrapper.bin.parameters!verbose:gc !"otspot !Xm#$%&'M
!Xms$&(M !XX:Ma#PermSi)e$&(M
or value o$ the s*jvm*options conte2t variable in the $ile
1A0043TO06admin67CO8T&9T:.xml
+jvm*options oa*var,s*jvm*options, os-,Solaris,.-
verbose:gc -Xmx512M -Xms128M -XX:MaxPermSize=128M
+/jvm*options.
12A)3O"AC4&35OM&6Apache6Jserv6l
ogs6/vm6OACoreGroup.7core;:.stdout
R12 Set the argu"ent )verbose:gc in the start!parameters0 java!
options ele"ent in the $ile
1O"A3CO82G35OM&6*<.*.=6opmn6conf6opmn.xml- ?or
in%tance,
+ias!component i-12C'31.
+process!t4pe i-1"ome1 mo-5le!i-12C'31 stat5s1enable-1.
+mo-5le!-ata.
+categor4 i-1start-parameters1.
+-ata i-,java-options, val5e,! server -verbose:gc
!Xm#6$&M !Xms$&(M. . .1/.
...
+/categor4.
...
+/mo-5le!-ata.
...
+/process!t4pe.
...
+/ias!component.
14OG35OM&6ora6*<.*.=6opmn6OC>J?
oacore?default3group3@
?ollo(ing are the %a"&le GC detail% that are generated a$ter %etting the value )verbose:gc
7GC 8&6'%9:!.(8%%%:;99<9<(:=0 %.&8%%99$ secs>
7GC 8&6($<:!.(889&:;99<9<(:=0 %.&'6'&6( secs>
7?5ll GC &<9<&(:!.(89<@:;99<9<(:=0 $.('9@@(' secs>
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But (hat doe% the%e value% "ean% and ho( to "ea%ure the"<

Figure 2
1, @ere (e %ee t(o "inor collection%, and a
2, Ma1or collection
F, and G, !ndicate the co"bined %i7e o$ live ob1ect% be$ore and a$ter garbage collection, re%&ectivel#- 3$ter
"inor collection% the count include% ob1ect% that arenHt nece%%aril# alive but canHt be reclai"ed, either
becau%e the# are directl# alive, or becau%e the# are (ithin or re$erenced $ro" the tenured generation-
E, !% the total available %&ace, not counting the %&ace in the &er"anent generation
I, The "inor collection too' about 2G %ec% to run
Si"&l# %aid, the $ir%t %tate"ent o$ thi% out&ut tell% that (e had F2EG0JKb u%ed, but that a$ter about *uarter
o$ a %econd o$ (or', GC ha% $reed 2G2G0JKB %o #ou no( have JJIJI8KB u%ed-
+ote, 3dditional $lag% li'e, !XX:+PrintGCAetails or !XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps can be u%ed to &rint "ore
in$or"ation about the collection%, $or in%tance,
7GC $$$.%'&: 7AeBCew: ($&(:!.($&(:;($&(:=0 %.%%%%6%6 secs>$$$.%'&: 7Ten5re-: $($6':!.&8$$:;&'69<:=0 %.$&@%86'
secs>
Fe% notable JVM paraeters
?e( 'e# o&tion% that %hould be con%idered $or u%e$ul GC logging areA
Table 2
-ption Meaning
!verbose:gc Enable verbo%e GC logging-
!XX:+PrintGCAetails Crovide detailed %tati%tic% about collection%-
!XX:+PrintTen5ringAistrib5tion
Give detail% about #oung generation %urvivor %&ace% and ho( "an# ob1ect% are
&ro"oted to the tenured %&ace-
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?ollo(ing are $e( o$ the o&tion% $or controlling ho( the JVM allocate% and organi7e% "e"or# +re$er Sun5%
docu"entation $or detail%,
Table .
-ption Meaning
!Xms Con$igure the initial Java hea& %i7e-
!Xm# Con$igure the "a2i"u" Java hea& %i7e-
!XX:+DggressiveEeap
!n%truct% the VM to anal#7e the current o&erating environ"ent and atte"&t to o&ti"i7e
%etting% $or "e"or#)inten%ive a&&lication%- Thi% o&tion al%o enable% i"&licit garbage
collection and ada&tive "e"or# %i7ing- !t i% intended $or "achine% (ith large a"ount% o$
"e"or# and "ulti&le CC8%-
!XX:CewFatio Con$igure the ratio o$ ne(0old generation %i7e%
!XX:CewSi)e Con$igure the initial %i7e o$ the #oung generation %&ace-
!XX:Ma#CewSi)e Con$igure the "a2i"u" %i7e o$ the #oung generation %&ace-
No( let5% loo' at %o"e o$ the de$ault JVM &ara"eter% &rovided in one o$ the con$iguration $ile%- ?or
in%tance, the %a"&le conte2t $ile 1A0043TO06admin61CO8T&9T38AM&.xml contain% the $ollo(ing
o&tion%,
+jvm*options oa*var,s*jvm*options, os-,Solaris,.-verbose:gc -Xmx512M -Xms128M -XX:MaxPermSize=128M
-XX:e!"atio=2-XX:#Print$%&imeStamps -XX:#'se&()* +/jvm*options.
Table /
-ption Meaning
!Xms$&(M !nitiate (ith 128MB hea& %i7e
!Xm#6$&M Gro( JVM hea& %i7e to "a2i"u" %i7e o$ E12 MB
!XX:CewFatio& !$ the %i7e o$ #oung generation i% 10 MB then the %i7e o$ old generation %hould be around
20MB
!XX:Ma#PermSi)e$&(M Ma2i"u" gro( able %i7e o$ &er"anent generation to 128M
!XX:+UseTGDH 8%e% thread)local ob1ect allocation bloc'%- Thi% i"&rove% concurrenc# b# reducing
contention on the %hared hea& loc'-
But all thi% tuning "ight go $or a to%%, i$ the develo&er call% S4stem.gc;= %ince thi% $orce% a "a1or collection-
3&&lication can be &rohibited to "a'e thi% o&erational b# &roviding !XX:+AisableI#plicitGC
Fe% tips #or JVM tuning in E0Business Suite
8&grade to highe%t &o%%ible certi$ied J6K ver%ion +JE I i% late%t certi$ied (ith both 11i and 12,-
To 'no( current ver%ion o$ Java, %earch $or the &ara"eter s*j-ktop in the $ile
1A0043TO06admin61CO8T&9T38AM&.xml
+3A:*T2P oa*var,s+j,-top,./oracle/apps/$$i/bin/java/$.'/+/3A:*T2P.
?or OACoreGroup con%ider no "ore than 100 active u%er% &er JVM +e$er 3&&endi2 $or S9=
Scri&t,
There %hould be no "ore than 1 active JVM0/CGJ in%tance &er CC8- !deall#, there %hould be 1
JVM &er 2 CC8%
Si7e #our "a2i"u" hea& %i7e a% either E12 MB or 1 GB- !$ #ou %tart (ith E12 MB and $ind that
"ore "e"or# i% re*uired, increa%e to a "a2i"u" o$ 1 GB- !$ "ore "e"or# than 1 GB i%
re*uired, u%e "ulti&le JVM5% o$ E12MB or 102G MB- +?or "ulti&le JVM5%, edit +oacore*nprocs
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oa*var,s*oacore*nprocs,.&+/oacore*nprocs.= Thi% i% to reduce GC ti"e %ince "ore hea& %i7e
"ean% "ore ti"e to garbage collect
Setting )L"% and )L"2 to the %a"e value avoid the need to "e"or# allocation during runti"e
.ith "ulti)CC8 %erver% u%ing J6K 1-G and higher, the !XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC !XX:
+UseParCewGC &ara"eter% have been %een to i"&rove &er$or"ance and GC throughput on %o"e
environ"ent%-
Minor GC %hould be occurring at interval long enough to allo( "an# ob1ect% to die #oung +i-e- lot
o$ ob1ect% %hould die bet(een t(o "inor GC,-
evie( the $re*uenc# o$ collection%, e%&eciall# "a1or collection% +i-e- ?ull GC,
!$ $ull GC% are too $re*uent, con%ider increa%ing L"% and L"2
Throughput i% inver%el# &ro&ortion to a"ount o$ "e"or#- Bigger the hea&, "ore the ti"e $or GC,
"eaning lo( through&ut-
8nle%% #ou have &roble"% (ith pauses, tr# granting a% "uch "e"or# a% &o%%ible to VM +E12 i%
good %tart and $ine tune a% &er load te%ting re%ult%,
100 u%er% &er OACore JVM ha% generall# &roven to be a &ractical and &er$or"ant nu"ber
!$ hea& u%age i% %teadil# increa%ing, then there "a# be a "e"or# lea' (hich re*uire t(ea'ing the
a&&lication code
6o not u%e !XX:+UseParallelGC (ith !XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
=a%t but not the lea%t, tr# e2&eri"enting (ith variou% JVM &ara"eter% re$erred in Table 2 and
Table F above and "an# "ore available at Sun5% docu"entation %ite +re$er e$erence% %ection,,
to arrive at the o&ti"al %olution
Monitor t'e JVM
The ba%ic te2t ba%ed "onitoring tool available to u% are the log $ile% (hich contain% the data &roduced b#
the JVM +u%ing Jverbose:gc o&tion,- ?or the detail% o$ the%e log $ile% and ho( to under%tand the hea& data
available in the%e $ile% re$er the Mea%ure"ent %ection above-
3&art $or thi% te2t ba%ed a&&roach, there are "an# other vi%ual tool% available to u% li'e JCon%ole,
Vi%ualVM etc
The $ollo(ing %ection (ill di%cu%% one o$ the", JCon%ole-
JCon%ole &rovide in$or"ation on &er$or"ance and re%ource con%u"&tion o$ a&&lication% running on the
Java &lat$or" u%ing Java Manage"ent E2ten%ion +JML, technolog#- Thi% tool co"e% in J6K 1-E and
&rovide% gra&hical vie( o$ the JVM hea&, u%age, thread%, cla%%e% and other %tati%tic% in real ti"e-
e$er ?igure F belo(-
Bou can run JCon%ole either locall# +$ro" the %erver that #ou are "onitoring a% localhost, or re"otel# via
a net(or' connection (ith /racle 3&&lication%- The %a$e%t and ea%ier o&tion i% to run locall# %ince u%ing
JCon%ole re"otel# i% "ore co"&le2, in%ecure and it "a# introduce unacce&table ri%' $or a &roduction
environ"ent-
The JCon%ole inter$ace in J6K E i% co"&o%ed o$ the $ollo(ing %i2 tab%A
1. Suar! di%&la#% %u""ar# in$or"ation on the JVM and "onitored value%-
2. Meor! di%&la#% in$or"ation about "e"or# u%e-
3. T'reads di%&la#% in$or"ation about thread u%e-
". Classes di%&la#% in$or"ation about cla%% loading-
%. MBeans di%&la#% in$or"ation about MBean%-
(. VM di%&la#% in$or"ation about the JVM-
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?or in%tance, to chec' $or "e"or# lea'% in #our a&&lication, #ou can %tart a load te%t to create a con%tant
load on the a&&lication- !$ the $unctionalit# #ouHre te%ting during the load te%t doe% not contain a "e"or#
lea', the "e"or# u%age %hould %ta# bet(een a %&eci$ic u&&er and lo(er li"it-
Connecting 1ocall!
8%ing JCon%ole (ith /racle E)Bu%ine%% Suite 11i
3dd the $ollo(ing line% to #our /serv.properties $ile &re%ent under M!3SNT/C03&ache0J%erv0etc0 ,%ave the
change% and bounce 3&ache %erver
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