Garbage Collector Ergonomics

The parallel collector has been enhanced to monitor and adapt to the memory needs of the application. You can specify performance goals for applications and the JVM will tune the size of the Java heap to meet those performance goals with the smallest application footprint consistent with those goals. The goal of this adaptive policy is to eliminate the need to tune command-line options to achieve the best performance. For a synopsis of garbage collection features, refer to the documentation at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/vm/gc-ergonomics.html.