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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...