On 12/02/2015 02:56 PM, Doug Lea wrote: > On 32bit systems the 1MB limit is completely defensible. But expanding > to say 64MB on 64bit systems would reduce practical encounters with > SOE in these kinds of constructions by a factor of 64 or so. > Is there any reason not to do this?
Some cloud VMs do not over-commit memory. This means they make sure that all of the memory which is allocated really is available. On such systems, pre-allocating 64M would be a Bad Thing. Andrew.
