Garbage Collection: increasing the throughput

The inspiration for this post came after stumbling upon “Pig in the Python” definition in the memory management glossary. Apparently,…

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Garbage Collectors – Serial vs. Parallel vs. CMS vs. G1 (and what’s new in Java 8)

The 4 Java Garbage Collectors – How the Wrong Choice Dramatically Impacts Performance The year is 2014 and there are…

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GC impact on throughput and latency

One type of the problems each and every Java application out there has to wrestle with is related to garbage…

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(Part 2 of 3): Synopsis of articles & videos on Performance tuning, JVM, GC in Java, Mechanical Sympathy, et al

This is a continuation of the previous post titled (Part 1 of 3): Synopsis of articles & videos on Performance tuning,…

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RMI enforcing Full GC to run hourly

During all the troubleshooting exercises I have carried out in my career, I have picked up a feeling that the…

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Garbage Collector guidelines and tips

These are some of the guidelines and tips I usually look at when I need to tune the GC. Are…

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Using Intel Performance Counters To Tune Garbage Collection

Introduction I have to admit that I was shocked. Indeed, quite shaken when I realised this advent calendar post would…

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(Part 1 of 3): Synopsis of articles & videos on Performance tuning, JVM, GC in Java, Mechanical Sympathy, et al

I have been contemplating for a number of months about reviewing a cache of articles and videos on topics like Performance…

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G1 vs CMS vs Parallel GC

This post is following up the experiment we ran exactly a year ago comparing the performance of different GC algorithms…

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