Query about heap memory consumption of Virtual Thread

[Anindya Bandopadhyay]

Hi,
I am just curious about the heap memory consumption of Virtual Threads.

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Code Link Here
<https://gist.githubusercontent.com/andysundar/6401e20fee5674ae47fd94778d37f752/raw/c95905c45cbae47cbb66c3fe46e48f13dcaf19a9/VirtualThreadScaleExample.java>

In the above code I am switching the thread factory in line number 10. I
was just trying to analyze performance statistics and what I discovered is
that virtual thread consumes a significant amount of heap memory (may be
due to the continuation objects put into heap memory) with respect to
platform thread.


   1. Do we need to increase the size of heap memory if we are using
   virtual thread?
   2. What do you mean by "virtual threads are lightweight" ?


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Will be eagerly waiting for your reply.

Regards;
Anindya Bandopadhyay
<http://www.linkedin.com/in/anindyabandopadhyay>
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