Nothing broken about it. It's optimized for a particular situation, that situation being a long running process on a server. This is where the JVM typically run

Nothing broken about it. It's optimized for a particular situation, that situation being a long running process on a server. This is where the JVM typically runs. If you don't want that behaviour there are a myriad of GC options, which could be better documented but are not that hard to find.