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Re:Sub-10 ms Latency in Java: Concurrent GC with Green Threads by chrisseaton on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @09:30AM (#24060533)
I know they run in the background... but I don't think they run in the background if there's nothing to do, do they?
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Re:Sub-10 ms Latency in Java: Concurrent GC with Green Threads by imtringued on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @04:43PM (#24065369)
A JVM with default settings will happily allocate more memory without attempting to even run a single GC cycle until it hits the configured heap size. Once it hits the limit it will try to run the GC.
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