RFR: 8186248 - Allow more flexibility in selecting Heap % of available RAM

[Bob Vandette]

Since it’s backward compatible for all working cases, I thought I could skip that.

If anyone disagrees, please let me know.

Bob.

> On Aug 16, 2017, at 1:37 PM, Ioi Lam <ioi.lam at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> It looks good to me, but I am wondering if we need to file an CSR for this type of change?
> 
> https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/csr/CSR+FAQs
> 
> Arguably, some scripts might have expected =MaxRAMFraction3.0 to fail .....
> 
> Thanks
> 
> - Ioi
> 
> 
> On 8/16/17 10:32 AM, Bob Vandette wrote:
>> Please review this simple two line fix which allows more flexibility in selecting the % of system RAM
>> to be used by the Heap.  This just changes two int variables to doubles.
>> 
>> RFE:
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8186248 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8186248>
>> 
>> Webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bobv/8186248 <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bobv/8186248>
>> 
>> Bob.
>> 
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