JEP 450 (Compact Object Headers) has been targeted for delivery in JDK 24. This currently experimental feature optimizes heap utilization by shrinking the size of the mandatory object header in HotSpo ...

The Java automatic garbage collection process typically operates as a low-priority thread that constantly searches memory for unreachable objects, objects not referenced by any other object ...

Instrumentation: querying the memory usage of a Java object provides a nice overview of this interface and provides a link to the Classmexer agent, “a simple Java instrumentation agent that ...

Most commonly used JVM parameters Of all the JVM options listed above, the most commonly used are Xms and Xmx, which set the minimum and maximum heap size, respectively. The following example sets the ...