Tuning the Serial Collector

Serial GC is the default collector for single CPU systems or containers. It also works well for small workloads where pause time and throughput are of no concern. SerialGC is very efficient, because it does all of its work on one thread, and therefore, it does not have the overhead of inter-thread communication. If your application runs in a system with two or more CPUs, and you wish to run garbage collection with only one CPU, use –XX:+UseSerialGC to enable this collector.

The JDK 8 Hotspot Virtual Machine Garbage Collection Tuning Guide is written primarily about Serial GC.

Last reviewed on Sat Feb 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)