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

In short, yes, it's very useful for tuning any serious Java application. We've often found that in production scenarios it's the difference between a stable app and a completely unpredictable app. It's certainly not the first thing I do but once you have an application working and can apply real load to it, it's one of the first things to investigate at that point.