Peter Johnson [https://community.jboss.org/people/peterj] created the discussion "Re: Not specifying an -Xms value" To view the discussion, visit: https://community.jboss.org/message/743191#743191 -------------------------------------------------------------- My recommendation is to not set -Xms the same as -Xmx on a development machine. Why? On such a machine you run numerous things, not just JBoss AS. In that event you want to use a little of your available memory as possible - most likely you won't be running the app server long enough for it to want to grab the rest of the memory for the heap. On a production machine, always set -Xms to the same as -Xmx. Why? Because a production machine is tpyically a one-use machine (that is, other than the OS, only the app server will be running). And after runnign a while the app server will have grabbed all of the heap memory, and won't let it go. So you might as well give it all the heap memeory to start with. (There is also a small performance penalty for making the JVM continually ask the OS for more heap space, and also for causing the JVM to determine whether it needs nor space or can give space away. Setting -Xms and -Xmx to the same value avoids performing those calculations. But the performance difference on modern processors and RAM configurations is negligible.) -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [https://community.jboss.org/message/743191#743191] Start a new discussion in Performance Tuning at Community [https://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]

Peter Johnson [https://community.jboss.org/people/peterj] created the discussion "Re: Not specifying an -Xms value" To view the discussion, visit: https://community.jboss.org/message/743196#743196 -------------------------------------------------------------- So you are running six copies for the app server at the same time? I'm a little rusty on this (its been years since I looked at JVM memory management in detail), but if I recall correctly, when a JVM starts up it asks the OS if it can reserve the amount of memory specified by -Xmx. If if can't it won't run. If it can, it then requests only -Xms memory for the heap. This can lead to a possible OOME later down the line if you don't have sufficient memory (RAM + swap) to hold -Xmx for all 6 app servers. -------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to this message by going to Community [https://community.jboss.org/message/743196#743196] Start a new discussion in Performance Tuning at Community [https://community.jboss.org/choose-container!input.jspa?contentType=1&...]