It's just like the pre-OS-X Mac OS in this regard :-)
Though I can understand why it is hard to avoid -Xmx for various GC algorithms whereas the pre-OS-X Mac OS really had no excuse.
On 8/12/2011 7:48 AM, phil swenson wrote:
http://eblog.chrononsystems.com/xmx-is-hurting-the-usability-of-java I've been saying this since I first discovered the terrible OutOfMemoryException in 1999. Xmx makes java inherently unstable. You can't rely on your app to stay up until you find the magic Xmx setting. WTF!? Dick/Carl/Tor/Joe - when you talk to Mark Reinnhold, can you bring this up?
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