Java Performance Tuning: Garbage Collection Outline 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 straight