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copied!<p>First, check out the <a href="http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/hotspot/gc/gc_tuning_6.html" rel="noreferrer">Java SE 6 HotSpot[tm] Virtual Machine Garbage Collection Tuning</a> documentation, if you haven't already done so. This documentation says:</p> <blockquote> <p>the concurrent collector does most of its tracing and sweeping work with the application threads still running, so only brief pauses are seen by the application threads. However, if the concurrent collector is unable to finish reclaiming the unreachable objects before the tenured generation fills up, or if an allocation cannot be satisfied with the available free space blocks in the tenured generation, then the application is paused and the collection is completed with all the application threads stopped. The inability to complete a collection concurrently is referred to as concurrent mode failure and indicates the need to adjust the concurrent collector parameters.</p> </blockquote> <p>and a little bit later on...</p> <blockquote> <p>The concurrent collector pauses an application twice during a concurrent collection cycle.</p> </blockquote> <p>I notice that those GCs don't seem to be freeing very much memory. Perhaps many of your objects are long lived? You may wish to tune the generation sizes and other GC parameters. 10 Gig is a <em>huge</em> heap by many standards, and I would naively expect GC to take longer with such a huge heap. Still, 1 second is a very long pause time and indicates either something is wrong (your program is generating a large number of unneeded objects or is generating difficult-to-reclaim objects, or something else) or you just need to tune the GC.</p> <p>Usually, I would tell someone that if they have to tune GC then they have other problems they need to fix first. But with an application of this size, I think you fall into the territory of "needing to understand GC much more than the average programmer."</p> <p>As others have said, you need to profile your application to see where the bottleneck is. Is your PermGen too large for the space allocated to it? Are you creating unnecessary objects? jconsole works to at least show a minimum of information about the VM. It's a starting point. As others have indicated however, you very likely need more advanced tools than this.</p> <p>Good luck.</p>

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