An Oracle-developed, low-latency Java garbage collector geared to large heaps could move to the open source community, if a proposal to do so gets community approval. Votes are due by November 8.

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Learn how C4’s concurrently compacting garbage collection algorithm helps boost Java scalability for low-latency enterprise Java applications, in this installment of Eva Andreasson’s JVM performance ...

As computer hardware gets cheaper and faster, administrators managing Java based servers are frequently encountering serious problems when managing their runtime environments. While our servers are ...

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 ...