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Article:		Scaling Enterprise Java on 64-bit Multi-Core X86-Based Servers
Subject:		Your information on defaults seems outdated
Date:		2006-11-02 09:50:57
From:		austinmills

As of J2SE 5.0, the default max heap is no longer 64M. For server class machines (as according to http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/vm/server-class.html ), which the 64-bit server would be, the VM would by default be the server VM and the heap boundaries would be (excerpted from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/vm/gc-ergonomics.html ): initial heap size: Larger of 1/64th of the machine's physical memory on the machine or some reasonable minimum. maximum heap size: Smaller of 1/4th of the physical memory or 1GB. So, it's not perfect, but it's a lot more reasonable than the pre-5.0 days. I agree that it's better to just statically define the min and max to the same number -- I personally haven't seen it result in VM crashes, but I have seen noticable pauses due to allocating additional heap.

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