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I want to change the Heap size of JVM. How can I achieve it?

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I want to change the Heap size of JVM. How can I achieve it?
posted Sep 22, 2013 by Manish Negi

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Old generation's default heap size can be overridden by using the -Xms and -Xmx switches to specify the initial and maximum sizes respectively:

java -Xms <initial size> -Xmx <maximum size> program

For example:

java -Xms64m -Xmx128m program
answer Sep 23, 2013 by Arvind Singh
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