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JVM Parameters

September 12, 2011   Java, JVM, Software

JVM Parameters affects its performance characteristics and java processes’ behaviors, performances and can be adjusted by changing these parameters. Using default values of these parameters are recommended except as required situations

* Boolean options are turned on with -XX:+<option> and turned off with -XX:-<option>.
* Numeric options are set with -XX:<option>=<number>. Numbers can include ‘m’ or ‘M’ for megabytes, ‘k’ or ‘K’ for kilobytes, and ‘g’ or ‘G’ for gigabytes (for example, 32k is the same as 32768).
* String options are set with -XX:<option>=<string>, are usually used to specify a file, a path, or a list of commands

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