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On 9 Jul 2006, at 01:40, Florent Daigni?re (NextGen$) wrote: > * Colin Davis <Colin at sq7.org> [2006-07-08 23:41:24]: > >> Fair- The profilers I found all seemed to be GUI based- I run my node >> on a server without X, that I can only access via SSH. I know Java >> 1.5 has a way do generate a profile text file, though.. >> I'll look into it, I suppose. > > No need to : I can explain the current strategy: > > We *force* the GC every 18.25 sec in our MemoryChecker thread. So, > yes, > it probaly creates CPU spikes ;) Indeed, it could be the cause of all our CPU issues. Can you explain the rationale for this? I have heard Java engineers say that the System.gc() command is one of the most abused commands in the Java API - because 99.9% of the time programmers think they should use it, they are wrong. Ian. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEsMbqQtgxRWSmsqwRAkkRAJ9jnM17/gyfEN9DXryawN5i2HPw2gCfXON6 Bdws3oYyKsclefuIU4S2FT4= =2zRR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
