The performance of some applications is limited by the amount of memory that the JVM can address. In particular, multithreaded programs that allocate heavily often bottleneck in garbage collection, and the total time spent in garbage collection can gener
This “smarter choice” of the garbage collector is generally better but is not always the best. For the user who wants to make their own choice of garbage collectors, this document will provide information on which to base that choice. This will first
Is your Java-based application fully using the capabilities of the IBM eServer hardware it's running on? In this article, the author shows how to find out whether garbage collection, the task carried out by Java Virtual Machine in the background to reclai