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It could if the GCs used non-temporal instructions that bypass the L3. Of course, how much of a problem this is in practice in most applications is something th

by pron 6y ago

It could if the GCs used non-temporal instructions that bypass the L3. Of course, how much of a problem this is in practice in most applications is something that would need to be measured.

pkolaczk 6y ago
Point taken. What about swap?
- pron 6y ago
  Yeah, swapping could be really bad and should be avoided. So: don't swap :) Java's memory consumption can't go up indefinitely. The most important setting is the maximum heap size. Set it to a good level and don't swap.