Has anyone found Garbage Collection tuning to be useful?

Question

I\'ve read plenty of articles about tuning GC in Java and have often wondered how many people really use some of the more advanced features.

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Answer 1

I would say the most common thing to tune is the maximum memory size. Most of the other memory options have sensible defaults and are often over tuned IMHO. i.e. Set when it really doesn't make much difference. I often see people set lots of options when half of them are the default in any case. ;)

Using a profiler is the most useful way to improve GC behaviour (by reducing the number of objects created)