It's very minor, and is irrelevant unless you are embedding the recommender in another app, and that app may call System.gc(). You can ignore it or set it as you like.
2011/12/14 Aleksei Udatšnõi <[email protected]> > I have noticed that in Mahout's wiki > (https://cwiki.apache.org/MAHOUT/recommender-documentation.html), it > is recommended to set JVM setting -XX:-DisableExplicitGC > > However in the book "Mahout in Action" Appendix A "JVM tuning" this > setting is not mentioned. > > Assuming, I use out-of-the-box Mahout item- and user-based > recommenders embedded into servlets. I wonder if Mahout authors still > recommend to use this setting for better performance? > > Thank you > Aleksei >
