Here's the relevant thread:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/awt-dev/2011-October/001952.html
It was concerning building strings that are supposed to be logged while
the logging itself wasn't actually enabled.
The problem reported by Nicolas seems to be about logger initialization,
so I doubt these two issues are related.
--
best regards,
Anthony
On 4/17/2012 6:03 AM, David Holmes wrote:
This sounds like it may be related to an issue that was reported a while
ago. I don't recall the exact details but there was some massive array
being allocated if I recall correctly. The fix was to add a guard to the
logging calls in the AWT code. But in this case if logging is being used
then you will hit this overhead.
Sorry I don't recall enough details to find an exact reference. Skimming
a number of mailing list archives hasn't turned it up either.
David
On 16/04/2012 11:18 PM, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
java.util.logging is currently handled by the Serviceability Team.
Adding that alias to this e-mail thread...
Dan
On 4/16/12 12:17 AM, Nicolas Carranza wrote:
Moving the mouse pointer over a java.awt.Window using JRE7 consumes
aprox. twice the CPU time as with JRE6 when logging is used (when a call
to java.util.logging.getLogger(String)---even without using the returned
Logger--- has been done). Keyboard key event processing suffers the same
performance penalty. For steps to reproduce this problem please look at:
http://www.java.net/forum/topic/performance/general-performance-discussion/jre7s-javaawt-performance-degradation-caused-javautillogging-linux
.
The performance degradation seems to be "enabled" by the call of
sun.util.logging.PlatformLogger.redirectPlatformLoggers() done inside
java.util.LogManager.readPrimorialConfiguration() on JRE7. Call chain:
Logger.getLogger()->LogManager.getLogManager()->
LogManager.readPrimordialConfiguration()->sun.util.logging.PlatformLogger.redirectPlatformLoggers().
This call is not made on JRE6. If this problem is not easy to solve then
I guess is better to remove this call from JRE7's
readPrimordialConfiguration as it does more harm than good.
Please let me know if there is a better place to report this problem. A
couple of weeks ago I "opened" a bug report on bugs.sun.com but I
received no response at all.
Cheers,
Nicolas
