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Keep interned strings out of perm gen

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Duplicate
    • P4
    • tbd
    • 1.4.1
    • hotspot
    • generic
    • solaris_2.5.1

    Description

      We've been seeing increased customer failures due to running out
      of perm gen. At one time the char[] data of strings was not kept
      in perm gen, but now it is:

      > Looking at StringTable::basic_add(), you'll see that if a
      > string to be interned is not in the old-gen, a copy is
      > made in the perm generation:
      >
      > string = java_lang_String::create_tenured_from_unicode(name, len, CHECK_0);
      >
      > which puts both the String and the char[] in perm. I do
      > remember looking at the code once, however, when it only put
      > the String object in perm (avoiding the array copy) but
      > that no longer appears to be the case.

      Since the perm gen sizing uses a different sizing policy than old
      gen, and in particular is more strictly bounded in size, applications
      which intern strings heavily are penalized. Its seems wise to keep
      objects not sematically required to be in perm gen from being placed
      there.

      (There might be interactions with CMS and a shared gen when that is
      integrated.)

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              kamg Keith Mcguigan (Inactive)
              dstoutamsunw David Stoutamire (Inactive)
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