RFR (XS): 8021967: Deprecate -XX:DefaultMaxRAMFraction

[Bengt Rutisson]

Hi Vladimir,

Thanks for looking at this!

On 7/31/13 6:06 PM, Vladimir Kozlov wrote:
> Bengt,
>
> You have special method in arguments.cpp check_deprecated_gc_flags(). 
> Why not use it?

I'm fine with that. I wasn't really sure whether to consider 
DefaultMaxRAMFraction a GC flag or not. Anyway, either way is fine with 
me. Here is a webrev with the warning message in 
check_deprecated_gc_flags() instead:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8021967/webrev.01/

Jon and Thomas, what do you prefer?

Thanks,
Bengt

>
> Thanks,
> Vladimir
>
> On 7/31/13 6:34 AM, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Could I have a couple of reviews for this small fix?
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~brutisso/8021967/webrev.00/
>>
>> For JDK8 we need to print a warning message when 
>> DefaultMaxRAMFraction is used on the command line. This is to allow us
>> to remove it for JDK9. The flag was superseded by MaxRAMFraction in 
>> 2009 for the JDK6u18 release.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bengt