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In preparation for the tuning and to understand the large number of options for the heap and garbage collectors the following white papers were reviewed:
http://java.sun.com/performance/reference/whitepapers/tuning.html
http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/gc5.0/gc_tuning_5.html
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/cms_gc_logs.htmlJava Tuning White Paper
- A general overview of tuning strategies for the JVM.
Tuning Garbage Collection with Java 5
- Details about the GC options for Java 5.
Understanding Concurrent Mark Sweep Garbage Collector Logs
- Provides good explinations of all that info the GC logs.