JEP 141: Increase the Client VM's Default Heap Size

[Jon Masamitsu]

On 2/22/2012 12:44 PM, Michael Bien wrote:
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> i am somehow not very comfortable with the fact that hello world or an 
> applet would request 1g from the OS. Are there usecases for 
> applications out there where the developer or admin doesn't know how 
> much memory is needed? If there are, than a default value would not 
> help those much anyway (-> expanding heap needed until system limit is 
> reached). All others set -Xmx  :)

I think the use case is where an applications is deployed to a  variety 
of machines.
Customer A runs on a big machine, gets lots of work thrown at it, wants a
big heap.  Customer B runs on small machines, etc. and wants a small heap.
No one wants to tune if they can help it. :-)

Jon

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> just wanted to bring this up, you guys are the experts.
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> regards,
> michael
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>> Thanks.
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>> Jon
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>>> best regards,
>>> michael
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