Top 10 Most Common Java Performance Problems

Java performance is an issue of interest for all Java application developers, since making an application fast is as important as making it functional. Steven Haines uses his personal experience on Java performance issues to conclude that most of them have common root causes. So, as a performance analyst, Haines sorts the basic performance issues to three basic categories:

Database problems, that mostly have to do with persistence configuration, caching or database connection thread pool configuration.

Memory problems, that usually are garbage collection misconfiguration or memory leaks.

Concurrency problems, and basically deadlocks, gridlocks and thread pool configuration problems.
Let’s delve into each category…


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