When using -Xmx flag, what happens if the argument given exceed physical memory?
问题 When using -Xmx flag, what happens if the argument given exceed physical memory? Also is there any way to explicitly make JVM to use a specific amount of memory using paging? 回答1: See for yourself: JVM fails in getting enough memory for the heap and exits. I don't think there is a way to make JVM use a specific amount of memory for paging, but you can use: -XX:+|-UseLargePages --for large page support and -XXLargePageSizeInBytes=<n> --for specifying how large your large pages can be. Look at