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Mash that trash -- Incremental compaction in the IBM JDK Garbage Collector

Mash that trash -- Incremental compaction in the IBM JDK Garbage Collector

This article discusses incremental compaction, a new feature in the memory management component of IBM JDK 1.4.0. Incremental compaction is a way of spreading compaction work across different garbage collection cycles, thereby reducing pause times. The authors discuss the need for incremental compaction, the compaction phases at a high level, and some runtime parameters. They also explain how to interpret changes in the verbosegc output.




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