Karsten Fries wrote:
> Hi Kyle,
>
> you reminded me of something. Perhaps some other people could comment on this,
> too.
>
> The setting i currently use is -Xms32 -Xmx128
> for setting my preffered min and max heap sizes.
> -Xincgc acitvates incremental garbage collection. I simply don't
> quite know what i it does to the VM, but i encountered better memory
> management. It seems that> the VM always tries to release its free
> memory back to the system. One can monitor a free VM memory of 1 to 2
> MByte, always.
>
> Kyle McDonald wrote:
>
>> There are some JVM options that I think can change this behavior, but
>> I think the default is for the JVM to hold on to free memory for it
>> to reuse.
When I wrote what is above, I was thinking of -Xincgc, but I wasn't
sure that was really what enabled that behavior. If you're seeing
it then maybe it's right ;)
> For my app it's definitly a recommended VM setting!!
>
I think it can help alot of things, but it wouldn't surprise
me if it had it's tradeoffs also.
-Kyle
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