OpenJDK and boxes with lots of RAM

Florian Weimer fweimer at bfk.de
Fri Nov 18 05:53:28 PST 2011


* Jan Just Keijser:

>> Hmm.  Does this mean that Hotspot should call getrlimit(RLIMIT_AS) and
>> limit itself to some fraction of that value if it is not unlimited?

> I like that idea, e.g. 60% of RLIMIT_AS would be good (instead of 25% of
> PHYS_MEM) - it would be very nice if a user (or sysadmin) can make a
> global setting to affect the percentage.

I think it has to be the minimum of both.

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