Get JVM to grow memory demand as needed up to size of VM limit?
- by Ira Baxter
We ship a Java application whose memory demand can vary quite a lot depending on the size of the data it is processing. If you don't set the max VM (virtual memory) size, quite often
the JVM quits with an GC failure on big data.
What we'd like to see, is the JVM requesting more memory, as GC fails to provide enough, until the total available VM…