First, you really need to increase the heap size. You have 16GB so take
advantage of it. Then Concurrent Mark Sweep may actually work.
You didn't mention what JVM you are using, it matters.
I did a presentation recently on Java GC that you might be interested,
http://docs.google.com/Present
I am running build SXCR 39 on my Sun Blade 100 and the performance on it is
horrible lately. How horrible you ask? JDS is almost unsable because the
mouse is jumpy and typing lags. The uptime load average is over 4 at idle for
JDS. But how about this as a benchmark for building build 40:
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