On 20/06/2010 10:24, André Warnier wrote: > Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> On Jun 19, 2010, at 18:31, "André Warnier" <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: >> >>> As Mark writes above (and my interpretation of things) : >>> - a bigger Heap means that the JVM will be able to accumulate more >>> dead stuff in it, >>> - when it is needed however, it will take much longer, because there >>> is more stuff to clean up. >> >> I thought we had taught you better than that... > > Ooops.
Me too. I was under the impression more dead objects == longer GC. >> The time it takes to perform a GC is *not* dependent on the number or >> size of dead objects, just on the live ones. > > That is counter-intuitive. Pray, why is that ? +1. I'd to get me head around this. > > (Or point again to a page describing the process, maybe. That would be > useful for the OP also). Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
