RE: Java Memory settings

["Jonathan Shore" <jshore@example.com>]

There's no win with a prolific garbage producer like java of course -- For
commercial web applications, allowing the heap to grow at least enables one
to handle some unexpected volume (within the constraints of VM) on a servlet
based application.  Now I guess the java GC might decide to tighten its belt
a bit more if it runs up against the heap limit, so putting limits might not
always be a bad thing.


> From: Stephen J. Turnbull [mailto:turnbull@example.com]
>
> Not at all, since it leaks like the business end of a firehose.  At
> least the Blackdown JDE port used to.  HotJava regularly ran to 100MB
> of VM -- in maybe a hour of browsing.  That was a couple of years
> back, but it put me off Java permanently.
>