This is what I've found, look at item #2:

http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/vm/gc-ergonomics.html

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Lon Varscsak <[email protected]>wrote:

> Also remembering this is only true for Java 6 (maybe only on
> solaris/linux)..  Trying to find supporting docs. :)
>
> -Lon
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Lon Varscsak 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I believe the default size for Java 64-bit is 1G not 64M.
>>
>> -Lon
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Pascal Robert <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I have questions about memory usage of Java/WO apps. One of our apps had
>>> good old "out of memory" error. While looking at how much system memory the
>>> app was using, I saw another app that was using 1 GB of resident memory!
>>>
>>>   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
>>>
>>>
>>>  2362 appserve  25   0 1922m 1.0g 9264 S  0.0 17.6   0:56.45 java
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> But what's strange is that app is using the default memory settings, we
>>> are not using the -Xmx arguments, so I don't understand why this app can,
>>> according to Linux, be using 1 GB of RAM when it should stop when it reaches
>>> 64 MB. I tried some Googling and I didn't find any info that the maximum is
>>> higher than 64 MB for Java 6 but maybe I was searching for the wrong thing.
>>>
>>> CentOS release 5.5 (Final) x86_64
>>> java version "1.6.0_20"
>>> Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_20-b02)
>>> Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 16.3-b01, mixed mode)
>>>
>>>
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