As members of the Garbage Collector Group of the HotSpot Virtual Machine Development Team, John Coomes and Tony Printezis have the credentials for presenting “The Garbage Collection Mythbusters” at ...

Generational Z Garbage Collector would lower garbage collection CPU overhead, lower heap memory overhead, and reduce the risk of allocations stalls, OpenJDK proposal says. A proposal floating in the ...

Garbage collection certainly doesn’t sound like a particularly enticing subject, given that most associate it with dragging cans out to the sidewalk once a week. But garbage collection is an important ...

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 ...

I am curious about the behavior of Sun JRE (Java 5 and up) WRT GC. Somewhere inside the "allocate" function call, GC kicks in because the young heap is full. From just looking at the code, we know ...