On Jun 19, 2010, at 18:31, "André Warnier" <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote:
>> > As Mark writes above (and my interpretation of things) : > - a bigger Heap means that the JVM will be able to accumulate more > dead stuff in it, > - when it is needed however, it will take much longer, because there > is more stuff to clean up. I thought we had taught you better than that... The time it takes to perform a GC is *not* dependent on the number or size of dead objects, just on the live ones. Having a borderline heap size can, in the worst case, result in almost continual GC activity, if there is only room to allocate a minimal number of objects between GC occurrences. - Chuck (Sent from my iPhone on a ferry in the middle of Lake Michigan.)
