Simone Bordet - G1 Garbage Collector: details and tuning

The G1 Garbage Collector is the low-pause replacement for CMS, available since JDK 7u4. This session will explore in details how the G1 garbage collector works (from region layout, to remembered sets, to refinement threads, etc.), what are its current weaknesses, what command line options you should enable when you use it, and advanced tuning examples extracted from real world applications.