Chapter 5. JVM Garbage Collection Tuning

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Setting the new size

• Setting the survivor ratio

• Choosing a garbage collection algorithm in Hotspot

• Choosing a garbage collection algorithm in JRockit

• Turning on verbose garbage collection

• Tuning to reduce the number of major garbage collections

• Disabling the RMI garbage collector

• Disabling explicit GC