Avoiding the Young Generation Guarantee

[Alex Aisinzon]

All

 

Our application scales very well when more memory is allocated to it.

The Young Generation Guarantee limits that scalability as it forces Full
GC while plenty of space is still available in the tenured space.

That guarantee forces us to use relatively smaller nurseries.

 
http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/gc5.0/gc_tuning_5.html#0.0.0.0.%20Young
%20Generation%20Guarantee%7Coutline infers that this guarantee only
applies to the serial collector but I see it too with the parallel new
collector.

Maybe I am confused in the collector terminology.

Could someone tell me how I can disable the young generation guarantee?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Alex A

 

I have enclosed a snippet of the GC logs for analysis purposes.

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