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I recently had cause to look at the documentation for the -XX:MaxPermSize argument to the JVM.
Its documentation says in part:
5.0 and newer: 64 bit VMs are scaled 30% larger
Does this mean that MaxPermSize is obsolete for Java 1.5 and later virtual machines? Or, as I suspect, does this scaling information simply describe what happens up to the max?
(Actually, come to think of it, 30% of what?)
64-bit JVM tends to use more memory because of bigger pointers. To alleviate this growth the default sizes of all memory areas in 64-bit JVM were increased. You can still override the defaults and use any values you want.
Moreover, if you already use
-XX:MaxPermSize, this change is completely irrelevant to you.