Tuning JVM (GC) for high responsive server application
- by elgcom
I am running an application server on Linux 64bit with 8 core CPUs and 6 GB memory.
The server must be highly responsive.
After some inspection I found that the application running on the server creates rather a huge amount of short-lived objects, and has only about 200~400 MB long-lived objects(as long as there is no memory leak)
After reading http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/hotspot/gc/gc_tuning_6.html
I use these JVM options
-Xms2g -Xmx2g -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:NewRatio=1 -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
Result: the minor GC takes 0.01 ~ 0.02 sec, the major GC takes 1 ~ 3 sec
the minor GC happens constantly.
How can I further improve or tune the JVM?
larger heap size? but will it take more time for GC?
larger NewSize and MaxNewSize (for young generation)?
other collector? parallel GC?
is it a good idea to let major GC take place more often? and how?
