This document is a summary or outline of Sun's document: Tuning Garbage collection with the 1.4.2 Hotspot JVM located here: http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/gc1.4.2/ (link no longer works) 1.0 Introduction For many applications garbage collection performance is not significant Default collector should be first choice 2.0 Generations Most straightforward GC will just iterate over every object in th

