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Re:New Project: ZGC – “Z Garbage Collector” for Java by rand0mthought on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @07:00PM (#15555029)
Run Apache Spark on the box with 256+ GB of RAM. The GC stalls by 60 or more seconds are quite typical for heavy queries. I hope new GC will bring improvements.
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Re:New Project: ZGC – “Z Garbage Collector” for Java by jerdavis on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @10:02PM (#15555800)
For Spark/etc I only care about throughput. It can stall all it wants. Exception (possibly) being spark streaming.
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