Unrecognized VM option 'UseParNewGC' , Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine

Question

I am trying to start a server using jre 10.0.1 64 bit. There is an obvious change in the settings for the JVM in windows start batch files. With the setting of -XX:+Us

Answer 1

I was getting the same error in elasticsearch. So the best way to resolve it is.

Run

sudo nano /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch.in.sh

and comment out that VM arg

#ES_GC_OPTS="$ES_GC_OPTS -XX:+UseParNewGC"