Fingerprinting has always been a bit pain in the ... that's why i thought we could improve performance of our maven build jobs by upgrading from 1.480.3 to 1.509.3 which promised some fixes regarding Fingerprinting.

Before the upgrade (using 1.480.3) we experienced Fingerprinting to take time between 5min and 15min on average for builds of the size of between 5 to 30 modules.

Actually it got way worse after upgrade to 1.509.3:
i observed huge amounts of data being loaded into heap which hit into old gen space pretty much instantly because of the huge amount being loaded into heap. so we ended up with running full GCs as long as there were builds in the state of "Waiting for Jenkins to finish collecting data".

we then downgraded to 1.509.2 which worked out pretty well so far.

we observed these problems with:

• jenkins 1.509.3
• tomcat 6
• jdk 6
• jvm-options: -XX:MaxPermSize=512M -Xmx6G -Xms6G -XX:NewRatio=4 -XX:SurvivorRatio=6 -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
• centos 5.5 final

we also observed many blocked threads during Fingerprinting-phases. unfortunately i didnt keep the whole thread dump log output, but the were blocked on hudson.model.Fingerprint.add(Fingerprint.java:717)

I attached some screenshots of our jvm-monitoring where you can clearly see the difference between 1.509.3 (many Full GC runs) and 1.509.2 (zero Full GC runs)
i also tuned the NewRatio jvm-option a bit when i downgraded to 1.509.2

I have to say that this issue is kind of a big hit to us, we won't be able to upgrade to any jenkins version containing these Fingerprint code changes within 1.509.3 as long as fingerprinting is still a mandatory step!