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asmhatreandClaude Sonnet 5 2f88734f5d Add flags: production JVM flag cheat sheet for Spring Boot on JDK 25/27
MaxRAMPercentage vs a hardcoded -Xmx, -XX:-UseContainerSupport, the
ActiveProcessorCount lie, and which diagnostic flags are worth leaving
on in prod, verified in real Docker containers on JDK 25 and JDK 27.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
2026-10-01 04:34:04 +00:00

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import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
/**
* Deliberately allocates and retains heap in fixed-size chunks until it is
* killed or finishes, printing progress as it goes. Used to demonstrate what
* actually happens when a container's memory limit, the JVM's heap flags,
* and real allocation pressure disagree with each other. See the post at
* https://ankurm.com/jvm-flags-for-spring-boot-in-containers-jdk-25-27/
* and docs/output/05-oom-*.txt / 06-oom-*.txt for the captured runs.
*/
public class MemoryHog {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
int chunkMb = args.length > 0 ? Integer.parseInt(args[0]) : 16;
int sleepMs = args.length > 1 ? Integer.parseInt(args[1]) : 150;
List<byte[]> held = new ArrayList<>();
long totalMb = 0;
System.out.println("MemoryHog starting: chunk=" + chunkMb + "MB sleep=" + sleepMs + "ms");
System.out.flush();
while (true) {
byte[] chunk = new byte[chunkMb * 1024 * 1024];
for (int i = 0; i < chunk.length; i += 4096) {
chunk[i] = 1; // touch each page so it is actually resident, not just reserved
}
held.add(chunk);
totalMb += chunkMb;
Runtime rt = Runtime.getRuntime();
System.out.printf("held=%dMB heapUsed=%dMB heapMax=%dMB freeHeap=%dMB%n",
totalMb,
(rt.totalMemory() - rt.freeMemory()) / (1024 * 1024),
rt.maxMemory() / (1024 * 1024),
rt.freeMemory() / (1024 * 1024));
System.out.flush();
Thread.sleep(sleepMs);
}
}
}