Practice Types Of Garbage Collectors (10.5.1) - JVM Internals and Performance Tuning

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Question 1.
What does the Serial GC do?
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Think about environments where only one thread is active.
Question 2.
Which garbage collector would you use for a multi-threaded application?
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Consider throughput and the number of application threads.
3Question 3.
Which garbage collector is best for single-threaded programs?
- Parallel GC
- CMS
- Serial GC
- G1 GC
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Focus on the thread count.
4Question 4.
True or False: CMS is designed to minimize pause times.
- True
- False
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Think about how CMS works.
Question 5.
Given a scenario where an application requires real-time processing with minimal interruptions, which garbage collector would be the best choice, and why?
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Think about interruptions during performance.
Question 6.
In a large-scale application that runs with intensive data processing, discuss the advantages of using G1 over Parallel GC.
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Evaluate how large data impacts collection strategies.

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