Number of Parallel GC Threads

[Jon Masamitsu]

kirk wrote On 01/23/09 09:39,:

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>I've come into a couple of situations where I need to throttle back on 
>GC threads so I think the request to throttle based on the -Xmx setting 
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How do you decide the number of GC threads given a maximum heap size?
Do you scale the number of GC threads linearly with the maximum
heap size?