Recently I helped configure a system for an application running under Tomcat on Linux with very large memory requirements: a minimum heap of 6GB with a maximum of 11GB. The JVM was initially configured to use the Parallel garbage collector. With this configuration garbage collection of the “Young Generation” was fine, but the “Old Generation” [...]

Update: it seems like a lot of people find this useful. With the final release of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, xulrunner-1.9.2 is in the main repository. Because of this, just uninstall xulrunner-1.9.1 and you’re done. I like living on the edge: I use Ubuntu Lucid and Eclipse 3.6M5 on my x86-64 notebook. Since the 25th [...]