Kirk (and a few other perf guys he's worked with/trained) offers this course all round the world, just drop him a note to see if one is close to you :-).
Cheers, Martijn On 26 January 2012 14:00, Steel City Phantom <[email protected]> wrote: > LOL, yea, let me figure out how im going to word the training request to get > a trip to Crete to attend a training session. > > i may be able to pull it off =-). > > thanks, i will check out the book. > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Martijn Verburg <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi there, >> >> I'm currently sitting in Kirk Pepperdine's Java Perf Tuning course >> (http://www.kodewerk.com), it is a course you want to get yourself on >> if you want to seriously learn how to tune Java stacks. >> >> There's a bunch of tuning by folklore advice out there on the net, I'd >> stay well clear of most of it! One bit of folklore is that 'Move to >> Java version X, your app will go faster'. Sure Java 7 has some >> benchmarks showing that it's faster/more efficient than Java 6 for a >> bunch of use cases, but your actual memory hog issue might be caused >> by something else.... >> >> Kirk highly recommends Charlie Hunt's "Java Performance" book, but it >> doesn't quite have the 'Performance Diagnostic Model' methodology that >> I've found invaluable in narrowing down the hunt for each bottleneck, >> not sure how much of Java 7 it covers. >> >> Cheers, >> Martijn >> >> On 26 January 2012 12:37, Steel City Phantom <[email protected]> wrote: >> > my system is a bit of a memory hog (inherited unfortunately). ive heard >> > that java 7 was supposed to make some improvements in the big memory >> > configurations. is it still maxed out at 4 gigs and does the >> > performance >> > begin to taper off when it gets to those levels like java 6 did. >> > >> > second, are there any good tutorials on performance tuning java 7 yet? >> > >> > -- >> > You want it fast, cheap, or right. Pick two!! >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups >> > "The Java Posse" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > [email protected]. >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> > > > > -- > You want it fast, cheap, or right. Pick two!! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
