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How can I see what garbage collector (CMS, Parallel and so on) is running by looking at gc logs for minor and major collection? I don’t have access to the command line options set to java (the sysadm for the appserver wont let me see them). I do have rather verbose gc logs.
Exact format of GC messages depends on JVM version and JVM settings. You can see samples at Oracle tutorial about GC tuning.
DefNewis default collector. It’s either serial or parallel, which one is chosen depends, again, on JVM version/settings. You can see your default settings in JDK 6 usingjava -XX:+PrintCommandLineFlags -version. On my system it prints:which means Parallel GC is
DefNewfor me. You can check this SO question and one of it’s answers references this table, may be it will help you.UPDATE Default Old Gen GC in JDK 6 is ParallelOldGC, see this enlightening pdf. In particular, you can change Old Gen GC to newer Concurrent-mark-sweep one using
-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
JVM option.