java lang OutOfMemoryError GC overhead limit exceeded Error

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Can someone explain what is “GC overhead limit” in the below error:

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded

Also, please do explain how to get rid of it. Thanks in advance.

May 31, 2018 in Java by anto.trigg4
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This simply means that for some reason garbage collector is consuming an excessive amount of time. For example, 98% of CPU time is spent on GC and less than 2% of the heap is recovered. This technically means your program stops making any progress and just executes the garbage collector. Thus in order to let you diagnose this error and prevent the applications from running for an extended period, JVM throws this error.

You can prevent this error, by following any of the below:

  1. Increasing the heap size, for e.g: -Xmx1g

  2. Enabling the concurrent low pause collector -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC

  3. Reusing the existing objects when possible to save some memory

Hope this helps!!

answered May 31, 2018 by misc.edu04
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