HI, the configuration of Xmx and Xmx only set the maximum value for the java heap space. You have also a Java Non Heap Space which can allocate Memory.
You can open a jconsole when running to have detail about the memory allocation. Regards Hervé On 1/17/12, Laures <baetz.alexan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > today one of our activemq nodes required more than double the memory than we > configured for its jvm. > While this behaviour might not strictly be activmq related, maybe someone > can explain to me how a java application can "break out" of its configured > java heap. > > Greetings, > Alexander > > -- > View this message in context: > http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/ActiveMQ-with-Xmx5G-and-Xms5G-required-more-than-10G-of-ram-tp4303360p4303360.html > Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
