A performance study of Java garbage collectors on multicore architectures

In the last few years, managed runtime environments such as the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) are increasingly used on large-scale multicore servers. The garbage collector (GC) represents a critical component of the JVM and has a significant influence on the overall performance and efficiency of the running application. We perform a study on all available Java GCs, both in an academic environment (set of benchmarks), as well as in a simulated real-life situation (clientserver application). We mainly focus on the three most widely used collectors: ParallelOld, ConcurrentMarkSweep

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2015
• Where: PPOPP
• Authors: Maria Carpen Amarie, Patrick Marlier, Pascal Felber, Gaël Thomas 0001
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, PPOPP 2015