HotSpot Incremental Java Garbage Collector

In my recent blog post Determining the Active HotSpot Garbage Collector, I described different approaches that can be used to…

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Determining the Active HotSpot Garbage Collector

The StackOverflow questions find which type of garbage collector is running, Default Garbage collector for a jvm, How can I…

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5 Tips for Reducing Your Java Garbage Collection Overhead

What are some of the most useful tips for keeping your GC overhead low? With the upcoming-yet-delayed-once-again release of Java…

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What is the fastest Garbage Collector in Java 8?

OpenJDK 8 has several Garbage Collector algorithms, such as Parallel GC, CMS and G1. Which one is the fastest? What…

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GC tuning in practice

Tuning Garbage Collection is no different from any other performance-tuning activities. Instead of giving in to temptation for tweaking random…

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What is Garbage Collection?

The following is an example from our Garbage Collection Handbook which will be published in the forthcoming weeks. In the meanwhile, take…

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Logging stop-the-world pauses in JVM

Different events can cause the JVM to pause all the application threads. Such pauses are called Stop-The-World (STW) pauses. The…

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7 Things You Thought You Knew About Garbage Collection – and Are Totally Wrong

What are the biggest misconceptions about Java Garbage Collection and how’s it really like? When I was a kid my…

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Java Performance Tuning: Getting the Most Out of Your Garbage Collector

What’s going on under the hood of the JVM and how Garbage Collection affects Java performance? The performance tuning world…

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