Elasticsearch comes with good out-of-the-box Garbage Collection settings. So good in fact that the Definitive Guide recommends not changing them. While we agree that most use-cases wouldn’t benefit from GC tuning, especially when it turns out there simply isn’t enough […]
G1GC vs. Concurrent Mark and Sweep Java Garbage Collector
Lately, inquiries about the G1GC Java Garbage Collector have been on the rise (e.g., see this search-lucene.com graph). So last Friday we took one of our Search Analytics servers running HBase RegionServer and a semi-recent version of Oracle Java (build […]