7.1 Overview of garbage collection and JavaVM memory management

The purpose of tuning JavaVM is to improve the system performance. The system performance will especially increase if you tune the garbage collection mechanism to enable proper memory management.

This section explains the following as the prerequisite knowledge for JavaVM tuning:

Organization of this section
7.1.1 Mechanism of garbage collection
7.1.2 Configuring the memory space used in JavaVM and the JavaVM options
7.1.3 Relation between the occurrence of garbage collection and memory space