PS Scavenge and PS MarkSweep

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• PS Scavenge >
• PS MarkSweep >

Read : How Garbage Collection (GC) works internally in detail in java - BEST EXPLANATION EVER

PS Scavenge >

• PS Scavenge is the Young generation collectors

• It is the parallel scavenge collector.

• PS Scavenge uses multiple threads in parallel for garbage collection.

• Vm parameter for enabling PS Scavenge >

-XX:+UseParallelGC

PS MarkSweep >

• PS MarkSweep is the old generation collector.

• PS MarkSweep is the parallel scavenge mark sweep collector.

• It uses the multiple threads in parallel for garbage collection.

• Vm parameter for enabling PS MarkSweep >

-XX:+UseParallelOldGC

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