Когда G1 решает начать смешанные коллекции, он агрессивно сокращает пространство Eden с 10 до 1 грамма.

{Heap before GC invocations=294 (full 0):
 garbage-first heap   total 20480000K, used 18304860K [0x00000002de000000, 0x00000002de804e20, 0x00000007c0000000)
  region size 8192K, 1363 young (11165696K), 11 survivors (90112K)
 Metaspace       used 37327K, capacity 37826K, committed 38096K, reserved 1083392K
  class space    used 3935K, capacity 4081K, committed 4096K, reserved 1048576K
2016-03-31T20:57:31.002+0000: 7196.427: [GC pause (G1 Evacuation Pause) (young)
Desired survivor size 717225984 bytes, new threshold 1 (max 1)
- age   1:   41346816 bytes,   41346816 total
 7196.427: [G1Ergonomics (CSet Construction) start choosing CSet, _pending_cards: 144693, predicted base time: 48.88 ms, remaining time: 951.12 ms, target pause time: 1000.00 ms]
 7196.427: [G1Ergonomics (CSet Construction) add young regions to CSet, eden: 1352 regions, survivors: 11 regions, predicted young region time: 20.72 ms]
 7196.427: [G1Ergonomics (CSet Construction) finish choosing CSet, eden: 1352 regions, survivors: 11 regions, old: 0 regions, predicted pause time: 69.60 ms, target pause time: 1000.00 ms]
 7196.494: [G1Ergonomics (Mixed GCs) start mixed GCs, reason: candidate old regions available, candidate old regions: 789 regions, reclaimable: 4703761904 bytes (22.43 %), threshold: 5.00 %]
, 0.0673540 secs]
   [Parallel Time: 60.1 ms, GC Workers: 18]
      [GC Worker Start (ms): Min: 7196427.8, Avg: 7196428.1, Max: 7196428.2, Diff: 0.4]
      [Ext Root Scanning (ms): Min: 7.3, Avg: 7.5, Max: 7.7, Diff: 0.4, Sum: 134.2]
      [Update RS (ms): Min: 28.2, Avg: 28.8, Max: 29.9, Diff: 1.7, Sum: 518.4]
         [Processed Buffers: Min: 41, Avg: 57.7, Max: 80, Diff: 39, Sum: 1039]
      [Scan RS (ms): Min: 0.1, Avg: 0.2, Max: 0.5, Diff: 0.4, Sum: 3.7]
      [Code Root Scanning (ms): Min: 0.0, Avg: 0.0, Max: 0.0, Diff: 0.0, Sum: 0.1]
      [Object Copy (ms): Min: 22.1, Avg: 23.1, Max: 23.4, Diff: 1.3, Sum: 416.2]
      [Termination (ms): Min: 0.0, Avg: 0.0, Max: 0.0, Diff: 0.0, Sum: 0.1]
         [Termination Attempts: Min: 1, Avg: 1.0, Max: 1, Diff: 0, Sum: 18]
      [GC Worker Other (ms): Min: 0.0, Avg: 0.1, Max: 0.2, Diff: 0.2, Sum: 2.5]
      [GC Worker Total (ms): Min: 59.5, Avg: 59.7, Max: 60.0, Diff: 0.5, Sum: 1075.1]
      [GC Worker End (ms): Min: 7196487.7, Avg: 7196487.8, Max: 7196487.9, Diff: 0.2]
   [Code Root Fixup: 0.2 ms]
   [Code Root Purge: 0.0 ms]
   [Clear CT: 1.9 ms]
   [Other: 5.2 ms]
      [Choose CSet: 0.0 ms]
      [Ref Proc: 0.5 ms]
      [Ref Enq: 0.0 ms]
      [Redirty Cards: 0.5 ms]
      [Humongous Register: 0.2 ms]
      [Humongous Reclaim: 0.1 ms]
      [Free CSet: 2.3 ms]
   [Eden: 10.6G(10.6G)->0.0B(848.0M) Survivors: 88.0M->152.0M Heap: 17.5G(19.5G)->7128.3M(19.5G)]
Heap after GC invocations=295 (full 0):
 garbage-first heap   total 20480000K, used 7299344K [0x00000002de000000, 0x00000002de804e20, 0x00000007c0000000)
  region size 8192K, 19 young (155648K), 19 survivors (155648K)
 Metaspace       used 37327K, capacity 37826K, committed 38096K, reserved 1083392K
  class space    used 3935K, capacity 4081K, committed 4096K, reserved 1048576K
}
 [Times: user=1.09 sys=0.00, real=0.07 secs]
2016-03-31T20:57:31.070+0000: 7196.495: Total time for which application threads were stopped: 0.0699324 seconds, Stopping threads took: 0.0003462 seconds

Это после того, как он был запущен с 10-11 г Эдема для 60 или более коллекций.

Вот соответствующие параметры JVM GC, с которыми мы работаем

-Xms20000m -Xmx20000m
-XX:+UseG1GC 
-XX:G1RSetUpdatingPauseTimePercent=5 
-XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=1000 
-XX:GCTimeRatio=99 
-XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=35 
-XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=1 
-XX:G1ConcRefinementThreads=6 
-XX:ConcGCThreads=18 
-XX:ParallelGCThreads=18

-XX:+PrintGCDetails"
-XX:+PrintGCDateStamps"
-XX:+PrintHeapAtGC"
-XX:+PrintTenuringDistribution"
-XX:+PrintGCApplicationStoppedTime"
-XX:+PrintPromotionFailure"
-XX:+PrintAdaptiveSizePolicy"

В соответствии сстраница 55 этой презентацииДля этого нужно изменить размер Eden, чтобы целевая максимальная пауза учитывала всю кучу, а не только новое поколение. Почему коллекционер так агрессивен?

Среднее время паузы молодого поколения составляет от 50 до 150 мс при размере кучи 10 г. Если презентация будет правильной (я не нашел ничего другого, чтобы поддержать это утверждение), я бы ожидал сокращения в два раза (куча 20 г), а не в 10 раз.