JEP 144: Reduce GC Latency for Large Heaps

[Todd Lipcon]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Tony Printezis
<tony.printezis at oracle.com> wrote:
> Todd,
>
> I recently pushed a change that causes G1 to be more aggressive when
> choosing which old regions to collect during mixed GCs. I think it still
> needs a bit more fine-tuning but it's much better compared to what we had
> before which I admit it was sub-optimal and fiddly. It should address both
> issues you mentioned below.
>

Thanks for the update, Tony. Are these fixes in the latest JDK7
releases? Or do I need to build from hg? (is there a snapshot/nightly
build from hg I could try if the latter to avoid the pain of building
myself?)

-Todd
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Todd Lipcon
Software Engineer, Cloudera