2 years ago

Category: automation

Java has always had performance issues with memory management, but now an alternative garbage collector open sourced by https://aws.amazon.com/?utm_content=inline-mention and https://www.openshift.com/try?utm_content=inline-mention may help in this challenge. “It is the first of its kind a concurrent generational garbage collector for the JVM,” he said.

To reduce downtime pauses, Shenandoah introduces a new technique called generational garbage collection, the presenters explained.

“Generational Shenandoah identifies the areas that contain new objects from objects that already survived at least one garbage collection suite,” Exner explained.

“Because the collector can focus on the areas that contain the most garbage it lowers pause times, shortens collection cycles, and reduces the amount of memory needed to achieve low pause times,” Exner said.