I am doing load testing on my application using jmeter and I have a situation where the cpu usage by the applications jvm goes to 99% and it stays there. Application still work, I am able to login and do some activity. But, it’s understandably slower.
Details of environment:
Server: AMD Optrom, 2.20 Ghz, 8 Core, 64bit, 24 GB RAM. Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
Application server: jboss-4.0.4.GA
JAVA: jdk1.6.0_25, Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM
JVM settings:
-Xms1G -Xmx10G -XX:MaxNewSize=3G -XX:MaxPermSize=12G -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseCompressedOops -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=1800000 -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=1800000
Database: MySql 5.6 (in a different machine)
Jmeter: 2.13
My scenario is that, I make 20 users of my application to log into it and perform normal activity that should not be bringing huge load. Some, minutes into the process, JVM of Jboss goes up and it never comes back. CPU usage will remain like that till JVM is killed.
To help better understand, here are few screen shots.
I found few post which had cup # 100%, but nothing there was same as my situation and could not find a solution.
Any suggestion on what’s to be done will be great.
Regards,
Sreekanth.
To understand the root cause of the high CPU utilization, we need to check the CPU data and thread dumps at same time.
Capture 5-6 thread dumps at the time of the issue. Similarly capture CPU consumption thread-by-thread basis.
Generally the root cause of the CPU issue would be problems with threads like BLOCKED threads, long running threads, dead-lock, long running loops etc. That can be resolved by going through the stacks of the threads.
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I have a java process which is running on k8s.
I set Xms and Xmx to process.
java -Xms512M -Xmx1G -XX:SurvivorRatio=8 -XX:NewRatio=6 -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+CMSParallelRemarkEnabled -jar automation.jar
My expectation is that pod should consume 1.5 or 2 gb memory, but it consume much more, nearly 3.5gb. its too much.
if ı run my process on a virtual machine, it consume much less memory.
When ı check memory stat for pods, ı reliase that pod allocate too much cache memory.
Rss nearly 1.5GB is OK. Because Xmx is 1gb. But why cache nearly 3GB.
is there any way to tune or control this usage ?
/app $ cat /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/memory.stat
cache 2881228800
rss 1069154304
rss_huge 446693376
mapped_file 1060864
swap 831488
pgpgin 1821674
pgpgout 966068
pgfault 467261
pgmajfault 47
inactive_anon 532504576
active_anon 536588288
inactive_file 426450944
active_file 2454777856
unevictable 0
hierarchical_memory_limit 16657932288
hierarchical_memsw_limit 9223372036854771712
total_cache 2881228800
total_rss 1069154304
total_rss_huge 446693376
total_mapped_file 1060864
total_swap 831488
total_pgpgin 1821674
total_pgpgout 966068
total_pgfault 467261
total_pgmajfault 47
total_inactive_anon 532504576
total_active_anon 536588288
total_inactive_file 426450944
total_active_file 2454777856
total_unevictable 0
A Java process may consume much more physical memory than specified in -Xmx - I explained it in this answer.
However, in your case, it's not even the memory of a Java process, but rather an OS-level page cache. Typically you don't need to care about the page cache, since it's the shared reclaimable memory: when an application wants to allocate more memory, but there is not enough immediately available free pages, the OS will likely free a part of the page cache automatically. In this sense, page cache should not be counted as "used" memory - it's more like a spare memory used by the OS for a good purpose while application does not need it.
The page cache often grows when an application does a lot of file I/O, and this is fine.
Async-profiler may help to find the exact source of growth:
run it with -e filemap:mm_filemap_add_to_page_cache
I demonstrated this approach in my presentation.
We have a wildfly 8.2 app server which allocates 6GB of server RAM. Sometime due to havey transaction count wildfly has stop receiving incoming connections. But when I check server (not app server, it is our VM ) memory, it uses 4GB of RAM. Then I checked Wildfly app server's heap memory it did not use at least 25% of allocate heap size. Why is that? When I restart wildfly App server, All things work normally and when it comes that kind of load, above scenario happen again
Try to increase the connection-limit as suggested in this SO question
You can Dump HTTP requests as given here
Also, are you getting any errors in your console? Please post them as well.
I have been given an interesting task of identifying a stop the world garbage collection / memory leak in a third party "black box" restful application, which is in production.
The application is load balanced, and recently, the application had a stop-the-world garbage collection on all server instances, which led to a production service outage.
I (we) don't have access to the third-party code.
This is what I have done so far:
I have been ensuring the JVM command line parameters are correct. The container is Jetty, OpenJdk 8, with the CMS garbage collector.
I have successfully been using VisualVM, with Memory Pools and Visual GC plugins to profile the app (-verbosegc is enabled).
My intention is to look at the amount of traffic we get in production (for each API endpoint), and run a soak test. I will increase the test load, with the intention of causing the stop the world GC to happen.
There is no specific out-of-memory exception, "just" a stop-the-world, with the application threads suspended. After 5-10 minutes, the application starts to accept requests again (502 on the load balancer go).
I have already looked at How to find a Java Memory Leak
I am at a disadvantage not being able to look at the source code.
Can someone please give me any further tips, or strategies on how to track down what is causing the stop-the-world GC, and memory leak.
Here are the JVM parameters which are being used:
java -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=9010
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.local.only=true
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false
-Xms6g -Xmx6g -XX:MetaspaceSize=2g -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=2g
-server -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+UseParNewGC
-Dsun.net.client.defaultConnectTimeout=10000
-Dsun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout=30000
-XX:+DisableExplicitGC -d64 -verbose:gc -Xloggc:/var/log/gc.log
-XX:+PrintClassHistogram -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps
-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=/var/log/heapdump.hprof
-XX:+UseCMSCompactAtFullCollection -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled
-XX:+ParallelRefProcEnabled
-XX:+UseLargePagesInMetaspace -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=100
Thanks
Miles.
I was looking for an answear but didn't find one.
I'm trying to create a new VM to develop a web application. What would be the optimal processor settings?
I have i7 (6th gen) with hyperthreading.
Host OS: Windows 10. Guest OS: CentOS.
Off topic: RAM that should I give to VM should be 50% of my memory? Would it be ok? (I have 16GB RAM)
Thanks!
This is referred to as 'right-sizing' a vm, and it is dependent on the application workload that will run inside it. Ideally, you want to provide the VM with the minimum amount of resources the app requires to run correctly. "Correctly" is subjective based upon your expectations.
Inside your VM (CentOS) you can run top to see how much memory and cpu % is being used. You can also install htop which you may find friendlier than top.
RAM
If you see a low % of RAM being used, you can probably reduce what you're giving the VM. If you are seeing any swap memory used (paging to disk), you may want to increase the RAM. Start with 2GB and see how the app behaves.
CPU
You'll may want to start with no more than 2vCPUs, checkout top to see how utilized the application is under load, and then make an assessment for more/less vCPUs.
The way a hosted hypervisor (VMware Workstation) handles guest CPU usage is through a CPU scheduler. When you give a vm x number of vCPUs, the VM will need to wait till that many cores are free on the CPU to do 'work'. The more vCPUs you give it, the more difficult (slower) it will be to schedule. It's more complicated than this, but I'm trying to keep it high level. CPU scheduling deep dive.
I am hosting IIS based web service applications on Windows 2008 64-bit system running on a Quad core 8G machine. Ran into couple of instances when W3WP was running at 7.6G of memory usage. Nothing else was responding on the system including RDP. Right click on the process from the task manager and creating the dumps, froze the system and all its threads for a long time (close to 30minutes). When the freeze up occurred during off hours, we let the dump run for a while (ran close to 1 hour) but still dump didn't complete. In the interest of getting the system up, we had to kill IIS
Tried other tools like procexp, debug diag etc to create full memory dump and all have the same results
So, what tool does the community use to grab dump files quickly? Or without freezing all the threads? I realize latter might be a rhetorical question. But what are the options for generating such a large dump file without locking up the system for a long time?
IMO you shouldn't have to wait until the process memory grows to 8 GB. I am sure with something like 3 - 4 GB you should be able to detect the memory leak.
Procdump has an option based on memory threshold
-m Memory commit threshold in MB at which to create a dump of the process.
I would you this option to dump the memory of the process.
And also SSD would help in writing faster.
WPA a.k.a xperf (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/performance/cc825801.aspx) is a powerfull tool, to diagnose the applications. You will get call stack of the culprit allocation. You dont have to collect the dump and it is no-invasive and does not load much in production systems
Complete step by step information is available here. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff190906(v=VS.85).aspx.