Looks like a good patch to me. /Staffan
> On 14 maj 2015, at 18:12, Srinivas Ramakrishna <ysr1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8080345 > <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8080345> > > > > On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Srinivas Ramakrishna <ysr1...@gmail.com > <mailto:ysr1...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > With perm gen going away (and being replaced by metaspace) in JDK 8, it makes > sense that the counter > sun.gc.policy.generations should be "2", rather than "3". However, in JDK 8 > that counter still says 3. > As I understand, the intention was that this counter would allow you to (for > example) know the range of > the sun.gc.generation.$num.* counters describing each of $num < > sun.gc.policy.generations in the heap. > Recall that the erstwhile perm gen in JDK 7 used to be synonymous with > sun.gc.generation.2, but the > JDK 8 avatars are now sun.gc.metaspace and sun.gc.compressedclassspace. > > The fix is simple, and I can submit a patch. Is there an existing bug for > this? > > thanks! > -- ramki >
