Re:3 billion items in Java Map with 16 GB RAM
by suresk on Sunday November 11, 2012 @02:52PM
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The behavior you want, I think, kind of depends.
Regardless, since Java 6 (I think), if the GC time becomes excessive (where "excessive" means x% of time is spent in GC and less than y% of memory is reclaimed in each GC cycle), an OutOfMemoryError will be thrown. This can be disabled.
Regardless, since Java 6 (I think), if the GC time becomes excessive (where "excessive" means x% of time is spent in GC and less than y% of memory is reclaimed in each GC cycle), an OutOfMemoryError will be thrown. This can be disabled.