I ran sar only recently after your advice and did not meet any huge GC-s on that server
At 08:14 there was a GC lasting 4.5 seconds, that's not five minutes of course, but also quite an unpleasant value; Still I'm waiting for big GC values and will provide according sar logs. 07:25:01 PM pgpgin/s pgpgout/s fault/s majflt/s pgfree/s pgscank/s pgscand/s pgsteal/s %vmeff 07:35:01 PM 0.00 4.34 9.02 0.00 13.61 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 07:45:01 PM 0.00 5.17 20.47 0.00 25.77 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 07:55:01 PM 0.00 4.66 8.63 0.00 18.69 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 08:05:01 PM 0.00 8.11 8.84 0.00 14.37 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 08:15:01 PM 0.00 5.19 21.65 0.00 25.94 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 24.07.2012, 10:22, "Wojciech Meler" <wojciech.me...@gmail.com>: > Can you provide output from sar command for the time period when long > GC occurred ? > > Regards, > Wojciech Meler