At a glance
This post is a revisitation of my previous one on ZGC. Unlike ZGC, Shenandoah is also available for Windows and macOS!
OpenJDK Wiki states that Shenandoah does the bulk of GC work concurrently, including the concurrent compaction, which means its pause times are no longer directly proportional to the size of the heap. Garbage collecting a 200 GB heap or a 2 GB heap should have the similar low pause behavior.
Availability
Shenandoah is in upstream OpenJDK since JDK 12, under JEP 189. Backports to JDK 8u and JDK 11u are available as well.
Enabling Eclipse
My setup includes:
- OpenJDK 12 (LTS) from AdoptOpenJDK macOS x64
- Eclipse Destop IDE from Eclipse macOS x64
Please note that Shenandoah GC is available only on HotSpot JVM, OpenJ9 JVM come with different GCs.
Download and install OpenJDK and Eclipse IDE, you can simply unpack the archives in you home directory, take note of installation paths.
Eclipse startup
Locate the eclipse.ini configuration file in your Eclipse installation directory.
Add the -vm option following these instructions, you may end up with something like:
-vm
/path/to/jdk-12.0.1/bin/java
Change the line containing -XX:+UseG1GC with:
-XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions
-XX:+UseShenandoahGC
You may also change the heap size parameters Xms and Xmx to higher values, personally I have quadrupled the values, more on this here.
The result should look like:
-vm
/opt/java/jdk-12.0.1/bin/java
-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.5.300.v20190213-1655.jar
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.1.1000.v20190125-2016
-product
org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product
-showsplash
org.eclipse.epp.package.common
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
--launcher.appendVmargs
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.8
[email protected]/eclipse-workspace
-XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions
-XX:+UseShenandoahGC
-XX:+UseStringDeduplication
--add-modules=ALL-SYSTEM
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.8
-Dosgi.dataAreaRequiresExplicitInit=true
-Xms1024m
-Xmx4096m
--add-modules=ALL-SYSTEM
Enjoy
Now you can run Eclipse IDE and enjoy it with your low-pause GC equipped JVM!
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