Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 10:57:27 +0300 From: Panagiotis Astithas <past@noc.ntua.gr> To: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com> Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Heap size limit Message-ID: <40B1AAE7.4020903@noc.ntua.gr> In-Reply-To: <20040522174956.GA61678@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <09BFCAF4-952D-11D8-822D-000393BB3E22@aps.org> <20040522174956.GA61678@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
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Greg Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:49:27AM -0400, Paul Dlug wrote:
>
>>I'm trying to start a JVM with a large heap size and getting an error
>>message:
>>
>>java -Xms256m -Xmx2024m
>>Error occurred during initialization of VM
>>Could not reserve enough space for object heap
>>
>>I tried a bunch of different sizes and anything under 2024m works just
>>fine so this appears to be a hard limit. I've tried changing a few
>>system parameters but can't seem to stumble on the right one. Can
>>someone help me out with this?
>
>
> Obviously I'm a long way behind on freebsd-java, but I'm catching up now...
>
> My strong suggestion is that you're hitting the maximum amount of memory
> that your user can mmap. I'm not exactly sure what setting dictate that,
> but its almost certainly what you're running into.
Definitely:
ktrace java -Xms256m -Xmx2024m
[...]
15034 java CALL mmap(0,0x82800000,0,0x1042,0xffffffff,0,0,0)
15034 java RET mmap -1 errno 22 Invalid argument
15034 java CALL write(0x1,0xbfbfd670,0x2b)
15034 java GIO fd 1 wrote 43 bytes
"Error occurred during initialization of VM
"
15034 java RET write 43/0x2b
15034 java CALL write(0x1,0xbfbfd670,0x2e)
15034 java GIO fd 1 wrote 46 bytes
"Could not reserve enough space for object heap"
[...]
% grep 22 /usr/include/errno.h
#define EINVAL 22 /* Invalid argument */
%man mmap
[...]
[EINVAL] MAP_FIXED was specified and the addr argument was not
page aligned, or part of the desired address space
resides out of the valid address space for a user
process.
[...]
Now try changing vm.max_proc_mmap to an insanely large value:
# sysctl vm.max_proc_mmap=10000000000000
vm.max_proc_mmap: 26960 -> 2147483647
We see the requested size gets truncated to 2 GB.
This still doesn't help us, though:
# /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/bin/java -Xms256m -Xmx2024m
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap
The weird thing is that in a GENERIC kernel, the kernel/userland address
space split is 1 GB / 3 GB. As it can bee sen from the following excerpt
from /sys/i386/conf/NOTES:
#
# Change the size of the kernel virtual address space. Due to
# constraints in loader(8) on i386, this must be a multiple of 4.
# 256 = 1 GB of kernel address space. Increasing this also causes
# a reduction of the address space in user processes. 512 splits
# the 4GB cpu address space in half (2GB user, 2GB kernel).
#
options KVA_PAGES=260
Why you can't mmap up to 3 GB of memory, I don't know. Perhaps we should
take it to -current or -hackers.
Cheers,
--
Panagiotis Astithas
Electrical & Computer Engineer, PhD
Network Management Center
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
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