Knowledge Base

Articles tagged as garbage-collection

How do I quickly identify long gc pauses via the messages or debug logs

Java Garbage Collection (gc) pauses are monitored by the MonitorGc process in Neo4j, and recorded in the $NEO4J_HOME/logs/debug.log ( or $NEO4J_HOME/data/graph.db/messages.log for Neo4j v2.3.x and prior). To quickly find the…

Read more

Mitigating Causal Cluster re-elections caused by high GCs

This article describes the effects of JVM stop-the-world GC pauses, on a causal cluster. A brief introduction to garbage collection, heap sizing and memory leak troubleshooting, is followed by a…

Read more