Reduce cap on maximum heap size?

[Florian Weimer]

It seems that in OpenJDK 7, there isn't a useful limit on the
automatically configured maximum heap size.  With 48 GB on a Linux
system (amd64), the default choice is 12 GB, which means that scaled
compressed oops which have a performance impact are used, as far as I
understand it.

Would it make sense to cap the maximum heap size around 1.5 GB instead?

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