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10.1.3 JVM garbage policy: Metronome
A new Metronome garbage collection policy is included with the IBM SDK for Java 7 for
evaluation purposes. It is a real-time incremental garbage collection policy and is supported
through WebSphere Real Time.
The Metronome Garbage Collector consists of two types of threads: An alarm thread and a
number of collection threads. The single alarm thread wakes at regular intervals to check
whether insufficient free space is available and no garbage collection is taking place. If these
conditions are met, the alarm thread triggers the collection threads to start garbage
collection. A number of collection threads mark live objects so that unmarked objects ...
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