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Tuesday Jun 08, 2004

Visualizing Garbage Collection

There are times when reading through megabytes of GC logs is overkill, especially when all you need is a general overview on how the JVMs GC algorithms are behaving with your application. The 'jvmstat' package helps developers and users visualize GC instead.
Visualizing Garbage Collection with jvmstat

Posted at 09:11AM Jun 08, 2004 by moazam in JVM Internals | Comments[2] | Permalink

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This just goes to illustrate exactly what kinds of things Java needs to improve to enable easier management of large enterprise applications. There's no reason any sysadmin should have to understand permgen, old gen, eden, young gen, tenured gen, etc.

Posted by Seth Leigh on June 09, 2004 at 12:38 PM PDT #

Seth, this is actually happening...1.5 and beyond will be more and more 'self-tuning'. Check out the Ergonomics section of the 1.5 Beta release notes. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/relnotes/features.html#vm_gc_ergo

Posted by Moazam on June 09, 2004 at 10:31 PM PDT #

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