Garbage Collector Latency
As you know the Garbage Collection shouldn’t happen too soon or too late, because in both cases the performance of the system gets affected. A delay in GC cycles results in memory leakage, whereas too…
Throughput in Garbage Collection
When it comes to the memory management of a software application, garbage collection is crucial. Actually, the memory of unused or unreferenced objects is recovered by a Java program called Garbage Collector. It means that,…
Types of Garbage Collectors
Before diving into the different types of garbage collectors, it’s important to understand some basic terms: 1. Serial Garbage Collector (Serial GC) Overview: Behavior: Performance Characteristics: JVM Argument: -XX:+UseSerialGC Recommended Use Cases: Limitations: 2. Parallel…
How does Garbage Collector work?
In our previous article on the Garbage Collector, we explained what a Garbage Collector is and why it is important in Java. We covered the basic concept that Java automatically removes objects from memory when…
Memory Heap
What is Memory Heap? The heap is a special area in a computer’s memory used by programs to store data while the program is running. When a program creates something new (like a text message,…
Garbage Collection – Overview
When developers write Java programs, their code often creates many objects. These objects are stored in a special area of memory called the heap. But what happens to the memory when we no longer need…
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