I was listening to a back episode of the Java Posse the other night from the '07 roundup "Whither java?" session (around 63:10), and heard someone mention the "-Xincgc" option for the Sun JVM that changes from the default collector with pauses and all, to an incremental collector.
This changes the behavior from big, ugly, noticeable pauses for garbage collection full sweeps to an incremental model where the pauses aren't noticeable, with the trade-off that it uses more CPU overall. So for batch-type, long-running CPU intensive operations the default collector will out-perform the incremental garbage collector marginally, but for user-visible operations the big noticeable pauses go away.
Technically, this forces the JVM to use the Concurrent Low Pause Collector, as documented in Tuning Garbage Collection with the 5.0 Java Virtual Machine. Interesting reading if you have the time.
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