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by threeseed 3996 days ago
For a JVM heap size greater than 32GB you should be using G1GC.

Tuning GC for Spark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drmJDISLkf4

In the Big Data space we have dozens of machines all with very large stack sizes (I run mine with 250GB) and don't run into any major stop the world pauses.