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Robert Munteanu commented on SLING-6756:
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The {{jvm.config}} file is a catch-all measure which ensures that we don't get
build failures or indeed slow builds due to incorrect JVM arguments.
The ant-based checks were removed in SLING-586 because with Maven 3.3.9 the
{{jvm.config}} file is supported, so the build will get the correct JVM
arguments.
Once we move to Java 8+ it makes perfect sense to remove the PermGen settings.
I am not sure about the max heap size setting though, I think that is still
valuable, for instance when building on small vms, which can happen on Jenkins.
> Remove setting/advising to set permsize and max heap size
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> Key: SLING-6756
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-6756
> Project: Sling
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Konrad Windszus
>
> PermSize is no longer an issue with java 8 as Java 8 no longer knows a
> dedicated permgen space
> (https://dzone.com/articles/java-8-permgen-metaspace). Still we set
> {{-XX:MaxPermSize=256m}} in
> https://github.com/apache/sling/blob/trunk/.mvn/jvm.config (SLING-4530) which
> leads to a warning when building with Java 8.
> The related ant check in parent has been removed though in
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-5862. Althought the reason why
> the check has been removed is a bit unclear to me from the comments, I would
> propose to remove the jvm.config completely and do no longer advise to set
> permsize or heapsize explicitly.
> The heapsize is currently bound to at most 512MB, which is in 90% of the
> cases just limiting the maximum heapsize of a modern JVM (because it should
> be 1/4 of the physical memory in most of the JVM, see
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4667483/how-is-the-default-java-heap-size-determined).
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