Nils Meyer @ Zalando
Nils Meyer @ Zalando
I think it makes more sense setting it equal to -Xmx so the memory allocation in the OS stays the same during garbage collection. This will * save a few...
Generally the JVM doesn't tend to yield memory back to the OS very easily unless configured to aggressively do so. Oracle usually recommends using -Xms == -Xmx, I agree that...
The performance impact of this is probably a lot higher with [KPTI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_page-table_isolation) enabled since context switches will become a lot more expensive on Intel CPUs and pre 4.14 kernels.