On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Shawn Heisey <s...@elyograg.org> wrote: > They are indeed Java options. The first two control the maximum and > starting heap sizes. NewRatio controls the relative size of the young and > old generations, making the young generation considerably larger than it is > by default. The others are garbage collector options. This seems to be a > good summary: > > http://www.petefreitag.com/articles/gctuning/ > > Here's the official Sun (Oracle) documentation on GC tuning: > > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/gc-tuning-6-140523.html >
Thank you Shawn! Those are exactly the documents that I need. Google should hire you to fill in the pages when someone searches for "java garbage collection". Interestingly, I just check and bing.com does list the Oracle page on the first pager of results. I shudder to think that I might have to switch search engines! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com
