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Re: [equinox-dev] Memory management in Eclipse - and equinox
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Thanks Ben/BJ,
These are excellent suggestions, and I will definitely look into this and follow up. In the past, my tools had to run on versions of Eclipse as far back as 2.x, so I could never consider the OSGi event admin service support.
Now for the meta-question, what do people actually think of the idea of such a listener (independent of its implementation)?
Does it make sense to add such a facility to equinox?
Chris
On 1/24/06, BJ Hargrave <hargrave@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I fully agree with Ben.
The org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr package could be used to manage
the listener lists and publish event in a bundle safe way.
Also, the Event Admin service with its publish/subscribe model should be
strongly considered.
BJ Hargrave
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OSGi Fellow and CTO of the OSGi Alliance
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Re: [equinox-dev] Memory management in Eclipse - and equinox
Have you thought of using the service registry rather than a MemoryManager
class? You could just have clients register a LowMemoryListener in the
service registry and have the policy manager interact with the
LowMemoryListeners it finds in the service registry.
I say this because your implementation relies on the clients to correctly
unregister themselves if they go away. In effect MemoryManager duplicates
what the service registry already does, but the service registry also adds
tracking of plugins as well as security,
ben
Chris Laffra wrote:
I have been developing a TPTP memory manager that is implemented as a
listener framework to broadcast "low memory" events. The proposal is for
the platform to provide a listener service that allows clients to register
as a listener to low memory events.
package org.eclipse.equinox.memory;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
/**
* This class is a placeholder to collect listeners that want to respond
to low memory events.
* Some listeners may want to clear a cache. Others may want to close
editors, entire
* perspectives, or other resources that consume memory in some form or
another.
* <p>
* All this memory manager does is keep a list of listeners and provide a
way to broadcast
* a low-memory event. <p>
* An external policy determines when to trigger a broadcast event to be
sent to the
* listeners.
* @author Chris Laffra
* @provisional
*/
public class MemoryManager {
/**
* Indicates memory is running low at the lowest severity.
* Listeners are requested to release caches that can easily be
recomputed.
* The java VM is not seriously in problem, but process size is getting
higher than
* is deemed acceptable.
*/
final public static int LOW = 1;
/**
* Indicates memory is running low at medium severity.
* Listeners are requested to release intermediate build results, complex
models, etc.
* Memory is getting low and may cause operating system level stress,
such as swapping.
*/
final public static int SERIOUS = 2;
/**
* Indicates memory is running low at highest severity.
* Listeners are requested to do things like close editors and
perspectives, close
* database connections, etc.
* Restoring these resources and caches constitutes lots of work, but
memory is so low that
* drastic measures are required.
*/
final public static int CRITICAL = 3;
private static List listeners = new ArrayList();
/**
* Register a listener with the memory manager. After registering, lhe
listener will
* be notified of
* situations where memory is running low with an indication of the
severity.
*
* @param listener the listener that can clean up memory
*
* @provisional
*/
public static synchronized void addLowMemoryListener(LowMemoryListener
listener) {
if (listener == null) {
throw new NullPointerException();
}
if (!listeners.contains(listener)) {
listeners.add
(listener);
}
}
/**
* Remove a low memory listener.
*
* @param listener the listener to remove
*
* @provisional
*/
public static synchronized void removeListener(LowMemoryListener
listener) {
if (listener == null) {
throw new NullPointerException();
}
listeners.remove(listener);
}
/**
* Broadcast a low memory event.
*
* @param severity either LOW, SERIOUS, or CRITICAL
*/
public static void broadcastLowMemory(int severity) {
if (severity < LOW || severity > CRITICAL) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException(Integer.toString(severity));
}
synchronized (listeners) {
for (int n=listeners.size()-1; n>=0; n--) {
LowMemoryListener listener = (LowMemoryListener) listeners.get(n);
if (listener != null) {
listener.memoryIsLow(severity);
}
}
}
}
/**
* @return the current list of listeners
*/
public static synchronized List getListeners() {
return new ArrayList(listeners);
};
}
The event looks like this:
package
org.eclipse.equinox.memory;
/**
* Extenders of this class listen to low memory events. They typically
implement a cache
* (a intermediate representation of some kind that is expensive to
compute and that
* is expected to be computed more than once on a given input).
*
* When memory is low, events will be broadcasted to request cache owners
to clean up
* their caches and hence to free up memory.
*
* @author Chris Laffra
* @provisional
*/
public abstract class LowMemoryListener {
/**
* Return a user-readable description of the listener, for debugging
purposes.
*/
public abstract String getDescription();
/**
* Return the number of items in the cache managed by the listener
*
* @provisional
*/
public abstract int getCount();
/**
* Return an estimate of the total memory (in bytes) consumed by the
cache managed
* by the listener.
* Return -1 when the size is unknown.
*
* @provisional
*/
public abstract long getSize();
/**
* Inform the listener that memory is low, indicating severity.
* severity is one of LOW, SERIOUS, CRITICAL
*
* @provisional
*/
public abstract void memoryIsLow(int severity);
}
As you can see the above contains no policy implementation that triggers
the broadcasting of the "low memory" events.
We expect that code to be application-specific and may requires native
code to collect statistics on available
physical memory, current consumption, page fault rate, CPU, etc.
As it stands, the above listener is committed to TPTP HEAD and will be
included in a build this week.
Would the equinox project be interested into including this API into
Platform core so that more plugins up the stack
can benefit from the api, without needing to buy into TPTP?
I added a screendump of a UI monitor that is included in TPTP that
monitors the current caches.
As you can see, I added 6 caches that I found in JDT as an example. When
users press the garbage can,
the "low memory CRITICAL" event is broadcasted and the JDT caches react by
flushing themselves.
As an experiment, we send out timed "low memory LOW" events.
Your feedback is appreciated,
Chris Laffra
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