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COOTS 2001 Abstract
HBench:JGC - An Application-Specific Benchmark Suite
for Evaluating JVM Garbage Collector Performance
Xiaolan Zhang and Margo Seltzer, Harvard University
Abstract
As Java becomes a viable platform for server applications,
performance becomes a greater concern. An important aspect of Java Virtual
Machine performance is its dynamic memory management system (garbage collection or GC). Traditional GC benchmarking often
focuses on a set of fixed applications. As a result, when an actual
application's
memory behavior differs from that of the standard benchmarks, the benchmark
results do not help the user judge which GC implementation suits her
application the best. In this paper, we present HBench:JGC, an application-specific
benchmarking suite, based on the idea that a system's performance be measured
in the context of a specific application. HBench:JGC employs a methodology that
characterizes the application memory usage and the GC implementation
independently and carefully combines both characterizations to form a single
metric that reflects a particular application's performance in the presence of
a particular GC implementation. We evaluate our approach on Sun Microsystems's
JDK1.2.2 classic JVM with a sequential mark-sweep GC. Our results demonstrate
HBench:JGC's unique predictive power and its ability to provide meaningful
metrics that lead to a better understanding of GC performance.
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