Question

I’m using JMagick and have a simple Java class that loops over all images in a directory (and its sub directories), converting images into grayscale images.

After my application runs for a while the JVM crashes. I believe the error message in the log is possibly suggesting that there were memory issues:

Java frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code) j
magick.MagickImage.writeImage(Lmagick/ImageInfo;)Z+0 j
com.example.ImageGenerator.generateAlternativeImages(Ljava/io/File;Z)V+91
j com.example.ImageGenerator.main([Ljava/lang/String;)V+58 v
~StubRoutines::call_stub

————— P R O C E S S —————

Java Threads: ( => current thread ) 0x0ab0c800 JavaThread “Low
Memory Detector” daemon [_thread_blocked, id=1532,
stack(0x0aec0000,0x0af10000)] 0x0ab0ac00 JavaThread
“CompilerThread0” daemon [_thread_blocked, id=7304,
stack(0x0ae70000,0x0aec0000)] 0x0aafe000 JavaThread “JDWP Command
Reader” daemon [_thread_in_native, id=6836,
stack(0x0ae20000,0x0ae70000)] 0x0aafc800 JavaThread “JDWP Event
Helper Thread” daemon [_thread_blocked, id=7248,
stack(0x0add0000,0x0ae20000)] 0x0aafa400 JavaThread “JDWP Transport
Listener: dt_socket” daemon [_thread_blocked, id=6252,
stack(0x0ad80000,0x0add0000)] 0x0aaee800 JavaThread “Attach
Listener” daemon [_thread_blocked, id=2020,
stack(0x0aca0000,0x0acf0000)] 0x0aaed400 JavaThread “Signal
Dispatcher” daemon [_thread_blocked, id=7492,
stack(0x0ac50000,0x0aca0000)] 0x0aada400 JavaThread “Finalizer”
daemon [_thread_blocked, id=5400, stack(0x0ac00000,0x0ac50000)]
0x0aad8c00 JavaThread “Reference Handler” daemon [_thread_blocked,
id=5772, stack(0x0abb0000,0x0ac00000)]
=>0x002b8000 JavaThread “main” [_thread_in_native, id=7020,
stack(0x008c0000,0x00910000)]

Other Threads: 0x0aad5400 VMThread [stack: 0x0ab60000,0x0abb0000]
[id=7720] 0x0ab0f000 WatcherThread [stack: 0x0af10000,0x0af60000]
[id=6432]

VM state:not at safepoint (normal execution)

VM Mutex/Monitor currently owned by a thread: None

Heap def new generation total 960K, used 793K [0x029c0000,
0x02ac0000, 0x02ea0000) eden space 896K, 88% used [0x029c0000,
0x02a865f0, 0x02aa0000) from space 64K, 0% used [0x02aa0000,
0x02aa0000, 0x02ab0000) to space 64K, 0% used [0x02ab0000,
0x02ab0000, 0x02ac0000) tenured generation total 4096K, used 0K
[0x02ea0000, 0x032a0000, 0x069c0000) the space 4096K, 0% used
[0x02ea0000, 0x02ea0000, 0x02ea0200, 0x032a0000) compacting perm gen
total 12288K, used 2219K [0x069c0000, 0x075c0000, 0x0a9c0000) the
space 12288K, 18% used [0x069c0000, 0x06bead18, 0x06beae00,
0x075c0000) No shared spaces configured.

I’ve tried adding -Xmx options but figure this might not be the solution. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Your JVM crashed, -Xmx will not help. Can you try running with -Xint and see if you can reproduce the problem? This will tell the JVM to run without Hotspot, which means no dynamic compilation optimizations. Which version of the JVM are you running with? If you can’t reproduce the problem with -Xint, and you’re using the latest JVM, you can try excluding only magick.MagickImage.writeImage from being compiled.

To exclude, create a file in the applications working directory called:

.hotspot_compiler 

and add the line :

exclude magick/MagickImage writeImage