Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. I don’t know anyone who likes investigating a Java heap dump. They can be massive — literally ...

I'm trying to show the higher ups that our codebase is not using objects correctly. We're making copies of immutable objects all over the place and its driving me mad. However, I have no 'proof' (i.e.

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.

Running a commercial app set to -Xmx2048M on Sol 10 (sun4v sparc) with 64G of physical RAM. Is it possible to bump up the java heap space even further?

Making Java garbage collection predictable and pause-free is a key feature of Azul Zing. With no pauses, high transaction rates and consistent response times are a given, according to Scott Sellers, ...