Large Delete Transaction Best Practices in Neo4j
August 7, 2020 2 mins read
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 you are in: Deleting the entire graph database, so you… Read more →
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Retired: Changing your Garbage Collection Method to G1
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This is already the default Garbage Collector in Neo4j 2.3+. This guide is only intended for previous versions. When to Use G1: By default, Neo4j versions 2.2 and earlier use Concurrent Mark and Sweep (CMS) for garbage collection. Customers with… Read more →
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Enabling GC Logging
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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 a stop-the-world event. For example: If you notice issues with… Read more →
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Long GC Pauses caused by application code calling System.gc()
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When investigating the cause of long garbage collection cycles, it is often useful to enable GC logging. You can do so by following the product documentation. Once this is enabled, you can look through the GC log file for signs… Read more →
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