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From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
To: java@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: GC leaks debugging
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D997D8C.9060903@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinPa=OE3EufbbwmXxXnjYF-idey7w@mail.gmail.com>

On 03/04/11 18:59, Erik Groeneveld wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Erik Groeneveld <erik@cq2.nl> wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Erik Groeneveld <erik@cq2.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Note that in the information you posted, the GC was scanning around 7.5MB of roots conservatively.  It might be worth checking what those regions are.
> [...]
>> So I am now off into JvCreateJavaVM,
> 
> and I found that the 7.5 MB roots are the static data area of libgcj
> itself.  The GC calls back -- the last arg being the size:
> 
> _Jv_GC_has_static_roots(../gccinstall/lib/libgcj.so.12, 0xb704f000, 7544028)
> 
> and since libgcj is in 'the store' (_Jv_print_gc_store() prints
> "../gccinstall/lib/libgcj.so.12"), it tells the GC to scan its static
> data area conservatively.
> 
> As of yet I don't understand why this static area is so big, and what
> could be on it, but when I lay myself to rest, the little gray cells
> will sing to me (free after Hercules Poirot ;-).

It'll mostly be introspection data.  Every class and every method has
this, and it can get to be quite large.  I doubt it's the cause of
your memory leak unless there's a bug elsewhere.

Andrew.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-04  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-01  8:39 Erik Groeneveld
2011-04-01  8:45 ` Andrew Haley
2011-04-01  9:03   ` Erik Groeneveld
2011-04-01  9:34     ` Andrew Haley
2011-04-02  0:27       ` Boehm, Hans
2011-04-02  9:39         ` Erik Groeneveld
2011-04-03 17:15           ` Erik Groeneveld
2011-04-03 18:00             ` Erik Groeneveld
2011-04-04  8:13               ` Andrew Haley [this message]
2011-04-04  8:53                 ` Erik Groeneveld
2011-04-04  9:48                   ` Andrew Haley
2011-04-05  4:44                     ` Boehm, Hans
2011-04-05  8:58                       ` Andrew Haley
2011-04-05  6:50                     ` Erik Groeneveld
2011-04-05  9:02                       ` Andrew Haley
2011-04-05 12:02                         ` Erik Groeneveld
2011-04-05 12:55                           ` Andrew Haley
2011-04-06 14:30                             ` Erik Groeneveld
2011-04-06 18:33                               ` Andrew Haley
2011-04-06 18:39                                 ` David Daney
2011-04-07 17:43                                 ` Erik Groeneveld
2011-04-08  8:12                                   ` Erik Groeneveld
2011-04-08 13:56                                   ` Andrew Haley
2011-04-08 15:35                                     ` David Daney
2011-04-08 15:53                                       ` Erik Groeneveld
2011-04-08 15:57                                         ` Andrew Haley
2011-04-08 15:48                                     ` Erik Groeneveld
2011-04-09  1:17                                     ` Boehm, Hans
2011-04-09  8:47                                       ` Andrew Haley
2011-04-09 10:56                                       ` Erik Groeneveld
2011-04-10 11:03                                         ` Erik Groeneveld
2011-04-12 18:43                                           ` Erik Groeneveld
2011-04-13  8:11                                             ` Andrew Haley
2011-04-13 12:11                                               ` Bryce McKinlay
2011-04-13 14:27                                                 ` Andrew Haley
2011-04-14  8:36                                               ` Erik Groeneveld
2011-04-14  8:43                                                 ` Andrew Haley
2011-04-14 10:02                                                   ` Erik Groeneveld
2011-04-14 10:50                                                     ` Andrew Haley
2011-04-15  7:32                                                       ` Erik J Groeneveld
2011-04-01 17:41 ` David Daney
2011-04-02 16:21   ` Erik Groeneveld

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