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Garbage collection (GC) reclaims the heap space previously allocated to objects no longer needed. The process of locating and removing those dead objects can stall your Java application while ...

One of the reasons developers love Java is that the JVM performs garbage collection (GC) for them. One of the reasons system admins hate the JVM is the unpredictable nature of Java GC. A Java GC ...

GCToolkit parses log files into discrete events and has an API for aggregating data from those events, allowing complex analyses of the state of managed memory in the JVM. Microsoft’s Java Engineering ...

Real-time garbage collection isn't an oxymoron. Just try spreading the cost of garbage collection over time so programming languages like Java can suit real-time applications without resorting to a ...

Oracle Corp. has proposed making the Garbage-First (G1) Collector the default HotSpot garbage collector (GC) in JDK 9 on 32- and 64-bit server configurations, sparking some debate in the Java ...

I am curious about the behavior of Sun JRE (Java 5 and up) WRT GC.<br><br>Suppose the following bit of code describes the behavior of the code I am writing<pre class ...

Terracotta has just announced the general availability of its new Java add-on for the Enterprise version of its Ehcache distributed Java caching software. Dubbed BigMemory, the add-on is designed to ...

I'm seeing some really odd memory usage and garbage collection behavior in a web application my team supports. We have a homebrewed monitoring application that tracks memory and CPU utilization and ...