Garbage Collection is a facet often disregarded and underestimated, yet beneath its surface lies the potential for profound impacts on your organization that reach far beyond the realm of application performance. In this post, we embark on a journey to unravel the pivotal role of Garbage Collection analysis and explore seven critical points that underscore... Continue Reading →
ZGC is a specialized garbage collector that focuses on managing large heaps and minimizing pauses in Java applications. It tackles the challenges of garbage collection in scenarios where memory-intensive workloads and consistent response times are vital. Leveraging concurrent processing capabilities and advanced algorithms, ZGC offers an effective solution for optimizing performance in modern Java applications.... Continue Reading →
3 - 4 decades back, developers were responsible for evicting (i.e., deallocating) the objects they created in applications. Business applications are quite complex, with different workflows, use cases and scenarios. Even if a developer missed releasing an object for one scenario, objects would accumulate in memory, causing memory leaks. When Java was introduced in 1995,... Continue Reading →
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intern() is an interesting function in java.lang.String object. intern() function eliminates duplicate string objects from the application and has potential to reduce overall memory consumption of your application. To understand how string intern() function works you may refer to this interesting blog. Intern strings are stored in a string pool in the JVM memory. JVM... Continue Reading →
When we launch applications, we specify the initial memory size and maximum memory size. For the applications that run on JVM (Java Virtual Machine), initial and maximum memory size is specified through ‘-Xms’ and ‘-Xmx’ arguments. If Java applications are running on containers, it's specified through ‘-XX: InitialRAMPercentage’ and ‘-XX: MaxRAMPercentage’ arguments. Most enterprises set... Continue Reading →
When the application's memory is under-allocated, it will result in the following side-effects: a. Transactions response time will degrade b. CPU consumption will spike up c. OutOfMemoryError will be thrown Only when OutOfMemoryError is thrown, most of us start to look at our application's memory settings. This is like only when a patient goes to... Continue Reading →
As the author of GCeasy - Garbage collection log analysis tool, I get to see few interesting Garbage Collection Patterns again & again. Based on the Garbage collection pattern, you can detect the health and performance characteristics of the application instantly. In this post, let me share few interesting Garbage collection patterns that have intrigued... Continue Reading →
I have heard a few of my developer friends say: “Garbage Collection is automatic. So, I do not have to worry about it.“ The first part is true, i.e., “Garbage Collection is automatic” on all modern platforms – Java, .NET, Golang, Python… But the second part i.e., “I don’t have to worry about it.” – may... Continue Reading →
