>> In general, don't expect to be able to run at close to heap capacity; >> there *will* be spikes. > i try to tune for 80% of heap.
Just FYI, at 80% target heap usage you're likely to have fallbacks to full compacting GC:s is my guess. If you are doing analytics only and aren't latency critical, that's probably fine though. -- / Peter Schuller (@scode, http://worldmodscode.wordpress.com)