Thoughts on Java metaspace allocation in IdP 4

[Wessel, Keith]

Thanks, Scott and Simon. This helps a lot.

Keith


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On Sat, 2021-01-16 at 00:08:55 +0100, Wessel, Keith wrote:
>Hi, all,
>
>In reading up on Java's move from perm space to metaspace, I'm learning that it's advisable in many cases to limit Java's amount of memory used for metaspace with something like:
>
>-XX:MetaspaceSize=256m -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=1024m
>
>Those numbers are probably too large for Shibboleth, I'm guessing. But if not set, it sounds like the metaspace can be as large as Tomcat or Jetty let it be.
>
>The wiki doesn't seem to offer any advice on these settings. Are there recommended values? Or can I assume that the IdP's use of metaspace and Java's garbage collection with - XX:+UseG1GC are good enough?

I've never had reason to change them either. It's usually very large 
apps which keeps a lot of compiled classes IIRC. And apps that load and 
unload a lot of classes?
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Anyway, when in doubt measure it! As a one off use jconsole/jvisualvm 
and for continuous production usage use a JMX exporter to export the 
metrics to your metricsplatform. We use jmxtrans-agent[1] on all our 
IDPs and most of our other Java apps and we love it.

In JConsole I'm pretty sure that metaspace is the "Non-Heap Memory 
Usage" under the "Memory" tab. And in JMX the MBean would be 
java.lang:type=Memory:NonHeapMemoryUsage.

BR,
- Simon

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