Tuesday, September 30, 2014

JDK 8: Thread Stack Size Tuning

When you upgrade JDK, you should re-examine all JVM options you have set in your Java applications.  For example, let's look at thread stack size tuning specifically.  As suggested in [1], it states:
  • In most applications, 128k happens to be enough for the Java thread stack.
However, after setting that, we have run into the following fatal exception:
The stack size specified is too small, Specify at least 228k
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
In this article, we will discuss thread stack size tuning in JDK 8 (i.e., HotSpot VM).

Default Thread Stack Size


When a new thread is launched, the Java virtual machine creates a new Java stack for the thread. As mentioned earlier, a Java stack stores a thread's state in discrete frames.[3] The Java virtual machine only performs two operations directly on Java Stacks: it pushes and pops frames.

The default thread stack size varies with JVM, OS and environment variables. To find out what your default ThreadStackSize is on your platform, use:[1]
java -XX:+PrintFlagsFinal -version
A typical value is 512k. It is generally larger for 64bit JVMs because references are 8 bytes rather than 4 bytes in size (but, you can compress oops or class pointers if you choose).[2] For example,[4]
In Java SE 6, the default on Sparc is 512k in the 32-bit VM, and 1024k in the 64-bit VM. On x86 Solaris/Linux it is 320k in the 32-bit VM and 1024k in the 64-bit VM.
On Windows, the default thread stack size is read from the binary (java.exe). As of Java SE 6, this value is 320k in the 32-bit VM and 1024k in the 64-bit VM.

In JDK 8, every time the JVM creates a thread, the OS allocates some native memory to hold that thread’s stack, committing more memory to the process until the thread exits. Thread stacks are fully allocated (i.e., committed, not just reserved) when they are created.

This means that if your application spawns a lot of threads, this can consume a significant amount of memory which could otherwise be used by your application or OS (or it can eventually leads to OutOfMemoryError).

You can reduce your stack size by running with the -Xss option. For example:
java -server -Xss256k
or
java -server -XX:ThreadStackSize=256 
Note that if you have installed a 64-bit VM binary for Linux, you can omit -server option.[5]

Virtual Memory Map


In JDK 8, HotSpot installation comes with a feature named Native Memory Tracking (default: disabled).  To enable it, use:
-XX:NativeMemoryTracking=[off|detail|summary]

After enabling NMT, you can examine the memory footprint taken by either Thread or Thread Stack using:
jcmd <pid> VM.native_memory [summary | detail | baseline | summary.diff | detail.diff | shutdown] [scale= KB | MB | GB]

 For example, on a 64-bit Linux platform, here is the thread stack size before and after setting -Xss256k:

Before

 Virtual memory map:

[0x0000000040049000 - 0x000000004014a000] reserved and committed 1028KB for Thread Stack from
    [0x00002aec741ca5e4] JavaThread::run()+0x24
    [0x00002aec74083268] java_start(Thread*)+0x108

After

Virtual memory map:

[0x0000000040078000 - 0x00000000400b9000] reserved and committed 260KB for Thread Stack from
    [0x00002b02c69156e4] JavaThread::run()+0x24
    [0x00002b02c67ce338] java_start(Thread*)+0x108


Conclusions


The thread stack is used to push stacks frames in nested method calls. If the nesting is so deep that the thread runs out of space, the thread dies with a StackOverflowError.[8] If your applications use lots of recursive algorithms or if your applications are built on top of a framework utilizing MVC design pattern such as Oracle ADF, you may want to leave StackThreadSize as defaults.

However, thread stacks are quite large, particularly for a 64-bit JVM.  In [9], Scott Oaks has advised:
  • As a general rule, many applications can actually run with a 128 KB stack size in a 32-bit JVM, and a 256 KB stack size in a 64-bit JVM.
  • In a 64-bit JVM, there is usually no reason to set this value unless the machine is quite strained for physical memory and the smaller stack size will prevent applications from running out of native memory. 
  • On the other hand, using a smaller (e.g., 128 KB) stack size on a 32-bit JVM is often a good idea, as it frees up memory in the process size and allows the JVM to utilize a larger heap.

Finally, the total footprint of the JVM has a significant effect on its performance. So, footprint is one aspect of Java performance that should be commonly monitored.

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