Jan
What you might try doing is set the large space size to
20MB but change the large space tenuring threshold so it
is lower. Then rely on the OS virtual memory manager to
not allocate real memory for the memory you are not really
using.
Terry
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Schuemmer [mailto:
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 5:15 AM
> To: 'VWNC'
> Subject: [VW7.4] Is it possible to dynamically change LargeSpace size?
>
> Hi all,
>
> does anyone know of a way to change the size of LargeSpace without
> having to snapsot and restart the vm (e.g. by adding some command line
> parameters for example)?
>
> I noticed that our application performs better for some use cases with a
> 20 MB LargeSpace, but on the other hand most of our users have small
> machines and don't trigger these use cases (so it would be a waste to
> reserve 20 MB of 120 available on the machine just for nothing).
> Finally, I don't want to deploy different images for these two settings.
> Any ideas??
>
> Cheers
> Jan
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