Is there a cookbook guide for GC problems?

Question

Almost everyone eventually runs into GC issues with Java.

Is there a cookbook guide or semi-automated tool to tune GC for Java?

My rationale is this:

Answer 1

References for various GC information:

Oracle

Tuning Garbage Collection with the 5.0 Java[tm] Virtual Machine

and this also

Java SE 6 HotSpot[tm] Virtual Machine Garbage Collection Tuning

IBM

Fine Tuning Garbage Collection [link dead]

Extensible Verbose Toolkit

SAP JVM

Memory Management (Garbage Collection)

Detecting Memory Leaks

Detecting Hanging / Looping VMs

Analyzing Out-of-Memory Situations

Sorry I don't know much about SAP but have provided some things I have found.

As for a cookbook, tuning is most likely application specific at this level, but it is an interesting topic.

ADDENDUM

You also mentioned analysis tools. Some candidates are listed here:

Know of any Java garbage collection log analysis tools?