The Z Garbage Collector is an advanced concurrent automatic memory management system for HotSpot. When the system is appropriately configured, it can really work miracles. However, a poorly configured system is susceptible to various common performance issues and pitfalls. This session will dig deeper into some of these pitfalls. It will teach the audience how to avoid the pitfalls today, but it will also talk about ongoing work within ZGC, aiming to solve these problems, so that the user can get a better experience out of the box without having to learn about any ZGC configuration quirks.

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