G1 collector frequent full GCs due to perm gen

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Migrating from CMS to G1 collector results in frequent full GCs due to MaxPermSize being reached.
  • G1 collector behaving different than CMS collector with perm gen collections.

Environment

  • OpenJDK
  • Oracle JDK
  • G1 collector

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