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What is the Concurrent Mark Sweep (CMS) collector?

April 26, 2017CMS Collector concurrent Mark sweep

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What is the Concurrent Mark Sweep (CMS) collector?

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The Concurrent Mark Sweep (CMS) collector (also referred to as the concurrent low pause collector) collects the tenured generation. It attempts to minimize the pauses due to garbage collection by doing most of the garbage collection work concurrently with the application threads.