How many objects are eligible for Garbage collection in Java?

How does the Common Language Runtime's approach to garbage collection differ from the approach taken by the Java Virtual Machine, and what are the performance trade offs of each approach?

Hi all, just going inside the java virtual machine found very interesting information on it. Inside java virtual machine (book) says train algorithm is used for garbage collection of old generation. Now reading the book i found everything Bill explained...

With Java7's release coming soon, we're re-evaluating our GC setup. The application serves up to 100k clients that send mostly short-lived requests. However some activity persists long-term. Due to the use of reflection in a few places there is also...

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A simple question. What is a good Variable to store a collection of Objects in Java IE. I have made a class to get stock information and now I want to make another object ...show more

BigMemory gets its performance advantages by restricting the size of the Java Heap while still using all available physical RAM. How is this achieved? Is it done by deserializing serialized representations from the offheap store?

Whenever I open a Java enabled website in any of my browsers like Firefox, IE, Chrome.... in all of them it shows me Java's rotating wheel for a while, but then it shows the word "Error..." written in a small box and the java enabled sites...

Java Plug-in 1.6.0_10 Using JRE version 1.6.0_10 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM User home directory = C:\Users\kdhl046 --------------------------------------… c: clear console window f: finalize objects on finalization queue g: garbage collect h:...

1.class Snoochy { 2.Boochy booch; 3.public Snoochy() { booch = new Boochy(this); } 4.} 5.class Boochy { 6.Snoochy snooch; 7.public Boochy(Snoochy s) { snooch = s; } 8.} And the statements 9.public static void main(String[] args) { 10.Snoochy snoog =...