G1 Performance [Was: JEP 248: Make G1 the Default Garbage Collector]

[Andrew Dinn]

On 30/07/15 07:29, Kirk Pepperdine wrote:
> You have to give G1 more memory than what you’d use with the parallel
> collector. Less memory will lower your throughput.

That may well be so but Andrew is using the out of the box settings. If
they included an increased memory size to accompany the change to G1
then the above comment might be more salient. The issue here is what
happens in the default case.

regards,


Andrew Dinn
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