Monthly Archives: April 2012

CompressedOops and 32 GB Heaps

By | April 7, 2012

At work we have a Java-based service that caches a very large amount of data. I spend a lot of time optimizing performance and memory usage for this service. The amount of memory it uses at runtime to cache a sufficient amount of data for performance reasons is now reaching the the 32 GB boundary.… Read More »