Automatic prediction of future out of memory exceptions in a garbage collected virtual machine

摘要

A method, article of manufacture and apparatus for automatically predicting out of memory exceptions in garbage collected environments are disclosed. One embodiment provides a method of predicting out of memory events that includes monitoring an amount of memory available from a memory pool during a plurality of garbage collection cycles. A memory usage profile may be generated on the basis of the monitored amount of memory available, and then used to predict whether an out of memory exception is likely to occur.