Tag Archives: Hotspot

Garbage Collection Tuning

I recently stumbled across a useful presentation: “GC Tuning In the HotSpot JVM” from FISL 10, which provides a good overview of how to tune the ParNew, Paralell and CMS collectors… Also quite useful is this blog entry which explains how to understand CMS GC logs.

Performance techniques used in the Hotspot JVM

Little gem from the Hotspot Internals wiki helping to solve puzzles such as is “X.class.isAssignableFrom(obj)” slower than “obj instanceof X“! Performance techniques used in the Hotspot JVM.