Tuning garbage collections for low latency

Question

I\'m looking for arguments as to how best to size the young generation (with respect to the old generation) in an environment where low latency is critical.

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Answer 1

When attempting realtime applications with Java, garbage collection tuning is essential but there are also other aspects you need to think about (e.g. the JIT compiler, timers, threading, asynchronous event handling).

Since there seems to be a demand for realtime Java, Sun provides a Java Real-Time System specification and has a commercial implementation available. You can find more information here.