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Bug ID: 6765804
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Synopsis GC "dead ratios" should be unsigned
Category hotspot:garbage_collector
Reported Against
Release Fixed hs14(b08), 7(b41) (Bug ID:2170016)
State 10-Fix Delivered, bug
Priority: 5-Very Low
Related Bugs
Submit Date 30-OCT-2008
Description
The variables MarkSweepDeadRatio and PermMarkSweepDeadRatio represent a percentage of the generation that can be left unreclaimed during a full gc, so valid values are 0-100.  Yet they are signed types, simply because of historical (bad) practice.
Posted Date : 2008-10-30 21:10:55.0
Work Around
N/A
Evaluation
Change the declarations in globals.hpp to use unsigned types and update the code that uses these values.
Posted Date : 2008-10-30 21:10:55.0

http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/hotspot-gc/hotspot/rev/122d10c82f3f
Posted Date : 2008-11-12 11:10:22.0
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