Empirical Analysis of Serial and Parallel Collectors : SPECjvm 2008

Garbage Collection (GC) is a process of automatic memory reclamation from the objects that are no longer required by the mutator. The execution time of the application and memory reclaimed by garbage collector are important factors that influence the selection of a specific garbage collector while selecting a specific one. The current research paper selects a suitable garbage collector on the basis of the above mentioned two factors. In this paper the execution time of SPECjvm2008 benchmarks and memory reclaimed by a garbage collector while executing these application is determined in real JVM. We further propose the optimal values of the above two issues that can be compromised, if the an application is to be executed with the garbage collector.