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chewiebug edited this page Jan 21, 2012 · 21 revisions

Some interesting links concerning garbage collection

Know how about java gc

Javaworld article rather old but generations well explained
Sun's memory management white paper lots of background knowledge but only up to java 1.5
Oracle's tuning guide for java 6 extensive information on all gc algorithms including recommendations (except G1)
Eric Bruno (Dr. Dobb's) explains G1 how does G1 work?
Angelika Langer's article on garbage collection algorithms (German) in depth information on gc algorithms written in German
Angelika Langer's article on 'Garbage Collection Tuning' (German) helpful information on tuning goals and how to achieve them in German

JVM options

tagtraum industries list of vm flags The initial developer of GCViewer collected quite a few vm options (up to java 1.5)
Alexey Ragozin's blog JVM garbage collection options cheat sheet very clearly laid out (including G1 options)
Oracle's list of -XX options includes defaults per option

(other) Tools

IBM's Garbage Collection and Memory Visualizer very powerful analyser - doesn't support G1 log files yet (as of 01/21/2012)