> I was able to run IBM Java 7 with Cassandra (could not do it with 1.6 > because of snappy). It has a new Garbage collection policy (called balanced) > that is good for very large heap size (over 8 GB), documented here that is > so promising with Cassandra. I have not tried it but I like to see how it is > in action.
FWIW, J9's "balanced" collector is very similar to G1 in it's design. -- / Peter Schuller (@scode, http://worldmodscode.wordpress.com)
