In preperation for the Fall 2006 semester UW Madison was looking at ways to improve portal performance. The inital effort was focused at tuning the JVM heap for the way uPortal uses memory.
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:
- 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.