Understanding and Tuning Garbage Collection in Java (G1GC)
Understanding and Tuning Garbage Collection in Java (G1GC) A practical, production-minded guide (with gc.log field reference and tuning options) Garbage Collection (GC) is one of the most misunderstood topics in the Java ecosystem. It is frequently blamed for latency spikes, slow services, and “random” performance issues—yet many teams never look at GC evidence. In integration platforms such as webMethods Integration Server, this matters even more: workloads are long-running, concurrent, and often create large volumes of short-lived objects (pipelines, documents, strings, adapter outputs, transformation data). When GC is unhealthy, the symptoms are operational: thread pool exhaustion, timeouts, throughput collapse, and unpredictable response times. ...