Hi,
I've posted a patch for gc log rotation via jinfo tool last year.
Then I received an email that essence of my patch will be implemented as
"subcommands" of jcmd.
Now, jcmd is provided by OpenJDK. However, current jcmd does not seem to
implement function of gclog rotation.
Will this RFE be implemented?
I need to rotate gclog which is synchronized with signal, cron, etc... on Linux.
So, if this RFE is not implemented for a while, I would like to contribute
patch for jcmd.
Regards,
Yasumasa
On 2011/09/29 21:15, James Melvin wrote:
Hi Yasumasa,
Thanks very much for your OpenJDK contribution! As part of the effort to
port JRockit features to HotSpot, we plan to introduce a consolidated
commandline serviceability tool (jcmd) to potentially replace many of
the existing tools in the bin directory, such as jmap, jstack, jinfo and
others. Over the next few update releases, we plan to add several jcmd
*subcommands* instead to accomplish specific tasks or affect the running
JVM instance. We'd like to use the essence of your contribution in one
of the jcmd subcommands (instead of extending jinfo) to ask the JVM to
begin rotating GC logs. We hope you find this attractive and hope you
will help review and perfect the change.
Thanks,
Jim Melvin
Sr. Engineering Manager
Oracle
On 9/26/11 6:38 AM, Yasumasa Suenaga wrote:
(I've changed subject of this email to new RFE.)
This RFE is enhancement of current gclog implementation.
So, I'd like to discuss about rotating gclog.
My customers need gclog rotation which is invoked by external trigger.
So I've requested this RFE and made a patch.
In many case on Linux, logfile is rotated by signal (e.g. SIGHUP) .
The aim of this RFE is to synchronize gclog and the other logs.
Thanks,
Yasumasa
(2011/09/22 20:55), Rainer Jung wrote:
On 22.09.2011 13:20, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
Yasumasa,
On 2011-09-22 04:47, Yasumasa Suenaga wrote:
If we can think Java on Linux and Solaris only, syslog is best
solution.
However, Windows usually doesn't have syslog.
So, I think that gclog is needed for logging GC stats with platform
independent in realtime.
Windows has it's own logging API as reach as syslog is or ever better
as well as numerous syslog implementations.
Native windows logging API was completely redesigned for Windows 2008
server and now it allows for developers to send a structured events from
theirs application.
AFAIK log rotation for loggc is already implemented though not
necessarily yet released. The change discussed here is about supporting
an externally generated rotation trigger, e.g. via a signal, instead of
only rotating by size or time via a startup parameter.
If you want support for syslog or Windows APIs included, it would be
best to start a new discussion.
A GC log for an application under load might easily produce a block of
about 1.5 KB size every few seconds. I seriously doubt, that the need
for log file rotation can be argued away by referring to syslog or
Windows log API as the correct solution.
The messages are not really line formatted, the format can vary a lot
(depending on the excat XX switches), the traffic can be quite high and
AFAIK the JVM writes it synchronously, so there must be absolutely no
risk in writing it out with very little latency. In addition, for
analysis, you wouldn't want to look at each event individually, but
instead process the whole file through a script or tool, which should
not depend on the output specifics of a platform specific log apparatus.
Regards,
Rainer
