I am planning to hike the ~100 miles of Shenandoah during the first week of March. All of the waysides and resorts will still be closed for the season. Are there any year-long stores or restaurants along Skyline aside from these official ones? Else, it looks like my only option is going into a town (Luray/Elkton primarily) - does that sound right?
Also bonus question - can someone confirm that Iβll likely need microspikes that first week of March?
Itβs high time I sectioned this park. No interest in sharing the trail with ticks. So whenβs the time to avoid being there? Iβve read βJuneβ in the pastβ¦accurate? Thanks.
I am an experienced in car camping and hiking. Friend and I want to plan a few nights backpacking through Shenandoah - I know May is not recommended as best time to do this due to heavy traffic in the AT so I was wondering if anyone had experience or recommendations?
Iβve not done backpack camping and would appreciate tips
So I am reediting this whole post to include info other people have added to the discussion.
See if your JDK supports the Shenandoah garbage collector. It is a much newer GC that does better the more memory you give it with applications that you don't want GC pauses on. My FPS jumped several hundred FPS when using it and My tick times stay pretty rock solid at 20. Even with big complex builds.
What is the Shenandoah garbage collector.
openjdk wiki Shenandoah garbage collector >Shenandoah is the low pause time garbage collector that reduces GC pause times by performing more garbage collection work concurrently with the running Java program. Shenandoah does the bulk of GC work concurrently, including the concurrent compaction, which means its pause times are no longer directly proportional to the size of the heap. Garbage collecting a 200 GB heap or a 2 GB heap should have the similar low pause behavior.
Effects on the Client.
It can reduce frame stutter and the GC pauses you get every so often. I was able to get several hundred FPS but I can throw 16GB at MC. Others have reported similar success but your result may vary depending on how much Memory and how many CPU cores you have. On my main system I have 16 CPU cores and saw huge gains. On my laptop I only have 4 cores but I still saw gains.
Effects on Servers
It can help on servers as well but Servers may still be overwhelmed by the shear amount of number crunching you have to do for MC to run. This GC only clears up GC stutters and pauses. Which will affect tick time and smooth it out.
Java versions that support the Shenandoah garbage collector.
Here is the support matrix from the OpenJDK wiki on Shenandoah GC
| Java Version | Supported | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| JDK 8 | Partial | Available as non-mainline 8u backport. Check with your vendor for availability. See known vendors list below. |
| JDK 9-10 | Discontinued | Discontinued, migrate to 11/15 as soon as possible. |
| JDK 11 | Supported | In mainline OpenJDK 11u since 11.0.9. Requires opt-in during build time, check with your vendor for availability. See known vendors list below. |
| JDK 12-14 | Discontinued | Discontinued, migrate to 15 as soon as possible. |
| JDK 15 | Supported | In mainline OpenJDK builds. |
Releases Shenandoah availabil
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I mean if there can be art for fantasy lands like Arizona and New Mexico this is fine, right?
