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The Diabolical Developer's 2012 and a new GC Tool

Hi all,So I haven't written here for over a year!  Why?TLDRWell because several amazing things have happened in the last year or so. I am truly, truly...

0 replies - 4703 views - 12/14/12 by Martijn Verburg in Articles

Why Can’t I Turn Off the Garbage Collector?

Let’s start with a quick rewind to the early days of my career as a Java developer. I wanted to eliminate Garbage Collection (GC) pauses from a test that...

0 replies - 4030 views - 09/06/12 by Nikita Salnikov... in Articles

JRockit GC in Action

In this article I would like to elaborate on the garbage collection specifics of Oracle's JRockit JVM. Recently JRockit has been made free for use and many...

2 replies - 14699 views - 07/12/11 by Alexey Ragozin in Articles

How to tame java GC pauses? Surviving 16GiB heap and greater.

Memory is cheap and abundant on modern servers. Unfortunately there is a serious obstacle for using these memory resources to their full in Java programs....

15 replies - 49977 views - 06/28/11 by Alexey Ragozin in Articles

BigMemory Ready to Slay Java GC Problems

"Big Memory is a GC murder weapon from Terracotta, like [an] AA12 Shotgun," exclaims Himadri Singh, a performance engineer at Terracotta.  Today,...

2 replies - 8473 views - 11/09/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Letting the Garbage Collector Do Callbacks

Garbage collection in Java is great, but in some cases you want to listen when an object is garbage collected. In my case I had the following scenario: I have...

2 replies - 9295 views - 07/16/08 by Peter Veentjer in Articles