Which garbage collection strategy is using

Developing environment:

Operating system	Mac OS 10.12
JDK version	1.8.0_131

 

Steps:

1. Enter the following command in command line:

java -XX:+PrintCommandLineFlags -version

The result is:

 

-XX:UseParalleGC

indicates ParallelGC is the default strategy. 

 

Reference:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2498942/how-can-i-see-which-garbage-collector-java-is-using