[jboss-user] [Beginner's Corner] - Re: Garbage collection + JVM settings

[Peter Johnson]

Peter Johnson [http://community.jboss.org/people/peterj] created the discussion

"Re: Garbage collection + JVM settings"

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First, you need a 64-bit OS and a 64-bit JVM (well, if you are running 32-bit Linux you might be able to get a 2GB heap). Second, you an't tell the JVM to not do any garbage collections until it reached 1.5GB of usage. Finally, are you sure that you really need a 2GB heap?
To get a better understanding of how GC works, see my whitepapers titled:
* Java Garbage Collection Statistical Analysis 101
* Java Garbage Collection Performance Analysis 201
at  http://www.cmg.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=java+peter+johnson&x=30&y=10 http://www.cmg.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=java+peter+johnson&x=30&y=10

In the JBoss AS run config file, change the JAVA_OPTS line that sets the heap. Example:

set "JAVA_OPTS=-Xms2048m -Xmx2024m -XX:MaxPermSize=256M"

I would provide some more specific instructions but you never said:
* what OS you are running on
* which version of JBoss AS you are using
* which version of the JVM you are running
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