Experiencing occasional long garbage collection delays, why?

Question

I\'m having a hard time dealing with a Java garbage collection problem, and interpreting the logs.

My application requires that no GC takes longer than 2 seconds, and id

Answer 1

have you seen this?

http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/gc5.0/gc_tuning_5.html

also, take a look at...

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/visualvm/index.html