This post is very small but
useful, I published this coz during my search I faced quite trouble to get the
meaning of SurvivorRatio JVM parameters which is been used to segregate the
memory between Eden space and Survivor spaces.
In JVM you can segregate the
Young generation from total heap using these parameters e.g. -XX:NewSize=400m
-XX:MaxNewSize=400m or -XX:NewRatio=3
In ideal condition 40% vs 60%
ratio will be good between Young Generation and Old Generation respectively;
alternatively it will depend on what type of application you have deployed on
JVM and based on GC.log output values can be tuned further..
To defined explicit memory area
for young generation used the below settings. For example if you have 1gb heap
size define using this parameter –Xms1024m –Xmx1024m or –Xms1g –Xmx1g then give
this “XX:NewSize=400m -XX:MaxNewSize=400m” to define young generation area.
Now there in one more important
configuration which you need to consider while segregating young generation
that’s called ‘SurvivorRatio’.
SurvivorRatio been used to
further split the memory areas in Young Generation and controls the size of the
two survivor spaces, young generation contains three sub area 1) Eden Space 2)
Survivor One 3) Survivor Two
Eden Space has two Survivor spaces. One survivor
space is empty at any given time. These Survivor Spaces serves as the
destination of the next copying collection of any living objects in Eden and
the other survivor space. If survivor spaces are too small copying collection
overflows directly into the tenured generation.
During my search for survivor ratio I found various
blogs, each blogs were saying different things, some of them saying, if you set
the SurvivorRatio=6 it will set the ratio between each survivor space and eden
to be 1:6, other were saying “each survivor space will be 1/8 the young
generation” etc but I didn’t get any such blog which gave me crystal clear formula
which will help to drive the Survivor space size.
I decided to do some POC and build a formula for
that, so that Survivor ratio can be calculated easily.
Here is the
formula which I have derived –
Formula to calculate S1 or S2 -
Total
Young Generation / (SurvivorRatio+2)*2
E.g.
If you have Young generation 400 Mb, SurvivorRatio set to 8 below will be
output-
400
/ (8+2) *2 = 20 MB
Similarly here is the formula to
derived Eden space –
Formula for Eden Space –
(SR
+1) * Young Gen / (SR +2)
E.g.
if you have Young generation 400 Mb, SurvivorRatio set to 8 below will be
output-
8+1*400/8+2
= 3600/10 = 360 MB
Result
of few values of SurvivorRatio which I have tested in Test Environment -
|
Young
Generation
|
S1
|
S2
|
Eden
|
SurvivorRatio
|
|
400
|
33.31
|
33.31
|
333.38
|
4
|
|
400
|
25
|
25
|
350
|
6
|
|
400
|
20
|
20
|
360
|
8
|
Note:
As
per above result, if you decrease the SurvivorRatio value then you will get
more Survivor Space, if you Increase SurvivorRatio you will get less Survivor
Space.
