Tag: balanced GC

Copyforward&Mark Hybrid Collector

Posted on by linhucaibm

Background Xgcpolicy:balanced Open J9’s Balanced GC policy is a region based, incremental generational collector, unlike the default generational concurrent policy (gencon), which is probably best suited for the most traditional java application, Balanced GC is designed to be used on large heap to reduce maximum pause times. In Balanced GC The Java heap is divided…

Balanced GC performance improvements: Eden + heap sizing improvements

Posted on by cedrichansen

Open J9’s Balanced GC policy is a region based, generational collector, which aims to provide a bound on worst case pause times, by eliminating the need for frequent global garbage collections. A more detailed description of how Balanced GC policy works, along with some of its advantages over the Gencon GC policy, can be found…