[jira] [Commented] (HBASE-14522) Document and/or disable hsperfdata GC pauses

["Vladimir Rodionov (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Vladimir Rodionov commented on HBASE-14522:
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Needs to be documented:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9483

> Document and/or disable hsperfdata GC pauses
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-14522
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14522
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: documentation, Performance
>            Reporter: Nick Dimiduk
>            Assignee: Lars Francke
>         Attachments: HBASE-14522.patch
>
>
> {quote}
> The JVM by default exports statistics by mmap-ing a file in /tmp (hsperfdata). On Linux, modifying a memory mapped file can block until disk I/O completes, which can be hundreds of milliseconds. Since the JVM modifies these statistics during garbage collection and safepoints, this causes pauses that are hundreds of milliseconds long.
> {quote}
> Via [JVM mmap pause|http://www.evanjones.ca/jvm-mmap-pause.html].
> We should add {{-XX:+PerfDisableSharedMem}} to our default options as was apparently done in CASSANDRA-9242 and/or document the presence of this bug so operators know to use tmpfs.
> Hat-tip [~vrodionov]



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