RFC: Epsilon GC JEP (original) (raw)

Peter B. Kessler Peter.B.Kessler at Oracle.COM
Thu Dec 14 23:57:51 UTC 2017

Which collection algorithm would you like System.gc() to run? Or is your suggestion that all the collectors support a "do not collect unless I call System.gc()" flag?

        ... peter

On 12/14/17 01:29 PM, Micha Berger wrote:

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 09:42:53PM +0100, Roman Kennke wrote:

Am 14.12.2017 um 21:18 schrieb Aleksey Shipilev:

On 12/14/2017 01:15 AM, mberger wrote:

I think Epsilon supporting System.gc() / Runtime.getRuntime().gc() would be very useful. And if the behavior isn't wanted, well there is always -XX:+DisableExplicitGC. And that will do what? System.gc() requests are ignored by Epsilon, because there is nothing to do. I believe he wanted to say that it'd be useful if it did something (i.e. collect garbage). I presume the idea is to never do GC, except when explicitely requested. Yes, I was saying that in contrast to doing no GC, I would find it useful to have a GC system that only collects on demand. For example, a server that collects garbage when the number of connected clients goes to zero. It could tolerate a small amount of object accumulation, possibly stay up indefinitely. (Depending upon usage patterns.) And yet it would only delay a socket connection if there is a new client vary shortly after. -Micha

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