Articles tagged as garbage collection
Retired: Changing your Garbage Collection Method to G1
When to Use G1: By default, Neo4j versions 2.2 and earlier use Concurrent Mark and Sweep (CMS) for garbage collection. Customers with large heaps or who are seeing unacceptable garbage…
Enabling GC Logging
What is Garbage collection and why enabling it? A garbage collection event is a complete pause of the java application (ie: neo4j-server). It can be identified in the debug.log as…
Large Delete Transaction Best Practices in Neo4j
In order to achieve the best performance, and avoid negative effects on the rest of the system, consider these best practices when processing large deletes. Start by identifying which situation…