GC overhead limit exceeded填坑心得

时间:2022-04-02 10:57:14

我遇到这样的问题,本地部署时抛出异常java.lang.OutOfMemoryError:GC overhead limit exceeded导致服务起不来,查看日志发现加载了太多资源到内存,本地的性能也不好,gc时间消耗的较多。解决这种问题两种方法是,增加参数,-XX:-UseGCOverheadLimit,关闭这个特性,同时增加heap大小,-Xmx1024m。坑填了,but why?

OOM大家都知道,就是JVM内存溢出了,那GC overhead limit exceed呢?

GC overhead limt exceed检查是Hotspot VM 1.6定义的一个策略,通过统计GC时间来预测是否要OOM了,提前抛出异常,防止OOM发生。Sun 官方对此的定义是:“并行/并发回收器在GC回收时间过长时会抛出OutOfMemroyError。过长的定义是,超过98%的时间用来做GC并且回收了不到2%的堆内存。用来避免内存过小造成应用不能正常工作。“

听起来没啥用...预测OOM有啥用?起初开来这玩意只能用来Catch住释放内存资源,避免应用挂掉。后来发现一般情况下这个策略不能拯救你的应用,但是可以在应用挂掉之前做最后的挣扎,比如数据保存或者保存现场(Heap Dump)。

而且有些时候这个策略还会带来问题,比如加载某个大的内存数据时频繁OOM。

假如你也生产环境中遇到了这个问题,在不知道原因时不要简单的猜测和规避。可以通过-verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGCDetails看下到底什么原因造成了异常。通常原因都是因为old区占用过多导致频繁Full GC,最终导致GC overhead limit exceed。如果gc log不够可以借助于JProfile等工具查看内存的占用,old区是否有内存泄露。分析内存泄露还有一个方法-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError,这样OOM时会自动做Heap Dump,可以拿MAT来排查了。还要留意young区,如果有过多短暂对象分配,可能也会抛这个异常。

日志的信息不难理解,就是每次gc时打条日志,记录GC的类型,前后大小和时间。举个例子。

33.125: [GC [DefNew: 16000K->16000K(16192K), 0.0000574 secs][Tenured: 2973K->2704K(16384K), 0.1012650 secs] 18973K->2704K(32576K), 0.1015066 secs]

100.667:[Full GC [Tenured: 0K->210K(10240K), 0.0149142 secs] 4603K->210K(19456K), [Perm : 2999K->2999K(21248K)], 0.0150007 secs]

GC和Full GC代表gc的停顿类型,Full GC代表stop-the-world。箭头两边是gc前后的区空间大小,分别是young区、tenured区和perm区,括号里是该区的总大小。冒号前面是gc发生的时间,单位是秒,从jvm启动开始计算。DefNew代表Serial收集器,为Default New Generation的缩写,类似的还有PSYoungGen,代表Parallel Scavenge收集器。这样可以通过分析日志找到导致GC overhead limit exceeded的原因,通过调节相应的参数解决问题。

文中涉及到的名词解释,

Eden Space:堆内存池,大多数对象在这里分配内存空间。

Survivor Space:堆内存池,存储在Eden Space的gc中存活下来的对象。

Tenured Generation:堆内存池,存储Survivor Space中存活过几次gc的对象。

Permanent Generation:非堆空间,存储的是class和method对象。

Code Cache:非堆空间,JVM用来存储编译和存储native code。

最后附上GC overhead limit exceed HotSpot的实现:

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bool print_gc_overhead_limit_would_be_exceeded = false;
if (is_full_gc) {
  if (gc_cost() > gc_cost_limit &&
    free_in_old_gen < (size_t) mem_free_old_limit &&
    free_in_eden < (size_t) mem_free_eden_limit) {
    // Collections, on average, are taking too much time, and
    //      gc_cost() > gc_cost_limit
    // we have too little space available after a full gc.
    //      total_free_limit < mem_free_limit
    // where
    //   total_free_limit is the free space available in
    //     both generations
    //   total_mem is the total space available for allocation
    //     in both generations (survivor spaces are not included
    //     just as they are not included in eden_limit).
    //   mem_free_limit is a fraction of total_mem judged to be an
    //     acceptable amount that is still unused.
    // The heap can ask for the value of this variable when deciding
    // whether to thrown an OutOfMemory error.
    // Note that the gc time limit test only works for the collections
    // of the young gen + tenured gen and not for collections of the
    // permanent gen.  That is because the calculation of the space
    // freed by the collection is the free space in the young gen +
    // tenured gen.
    // At this point the GC overhead limit is being exceeded.
    inc_gc_overhead_limit_count();
    if (UseGCOverheadLimit) {
      if (gc_overhead_limit_count() >=
          AdaptiveSizePolicyGCTimeLimitThreshold){
        // All conditions have been met for throwing an out-of-memory
        set_gc_overhead_limit_exceeded(true);
        // Avoid consecutive OOM due to the gc time limit by resetting
        // the counter.
        reset_gc_overhead_limit_count();
      else {
        // The required consecutive collections which exceed the
        // GC time limit may or may not have been reached. We
        // are approaching that condition and so as not to
        // throw an out-of-memory before all SoftRef's have been
        // cleared, set _should_clear_all_soft_refs in CollectorPolicy.
        // The clearing will be done on the next GC.
        bool near_limit = gc_overhead_limit_near();
        if (near_limit) {
          collector_policy->set_should_clear_all_soft_refs(true);
          if (PrintGCDetails && Verbose) {
            gclog_or_tty->print_cr("  Nearing GC overhead limit, "
              "will be clearing all SoftReference");
          }
        }
      }
    }
    // Set this even when the overhead limit will not
    // cause an out-of-memory.  Diagnostic message indicating
    // that the overhead limit is being exceeded is sometimes
    // printed.
    print_gc_overhead_limit_would_be_exceeded = true;
  else {
    // Did not exceed overhead limits
    reset_gc_overhead_limit_count();
  }
}

参照&延伸阅读:

http://javaeesupportpatterns.blogspot.com/2012/01/gc-overhead-limit-exceeded-understand.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/gc-tuning-6-140523.html

http://reins.altervista.org/java/gc1.4.2_example.html

http://*.com/questions/2129044/java-heap-terminology-young-old-and-permanent-generations

http://book.51cto.com/art/201306/399236.htm

https://blogs.oracle.com/jonthecollector/entry/presenting_the_permanent_generation

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