Avoid collect young gen while doing the full GC

Keith McGuigan Keith.McGuigan at Sun.COM
Tue Mar 23 10:41:21 PDT 2010


On 03/23/10 11:51, Tony Guan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In my current project, one crazy idea is to leave the young generation
> untouched(not collected) during a Full Gc. Is it feasible if I want to
> collect the tenured gen only in a full GC?
>
> To do this, the young gen should be included as part of the root set,
> and the reference processor should only care about the old gen. Am I
> right?  Is there anything else I should take care of?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Tony
>   
Hi Tony,

I think hotspot-gc-dev would be a better place for this question:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/hotspot-gc-dev

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