Dang,
on rereading your message, i think you want something like this
JVMArgs::Args.new({:heap_size => "80%"})
correct?
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Nguyen, Dang <
> wrote:
> In some cases, an entire machine is dedicated for the jvm, but some memory
> should bee reserved for the operating system. So how about about supporting
> a percentage of total memory?
>
> ________________________________
> From: Bryan Berry
> Sent: Thu, Mar 21, 2013 06:31 AM
> To:
> Subject: [chef] Re: Re: [ANN] jvmargs, a sanity checker for JVM options
>
> min and max should be the same because there is no benefit to having a
> lower min according to everything I have read. It can slow down your
> application startup however.
>
> it will not support parsing a space delimited string, only the options
> specifically for the JVM, for example
>
> "java -Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp/foo -server -Xmx256m -Xint
> -XX:MaxPermSize=512M -classpath /tmp/foo.jar:/tmp/baz.jar
> org.apache.catalina.Bootstrap start "
>
> jvmargs doesn't add the java binary to the beginning nor the
> "org.apache.catalina.Bootstrap start"
>
> I do want to handle the classpath but i have not figured out a clean
> way to handle that yet :(
>
> i would very much appreciate feedback and testing. this afternoon i
> hope to add support for arbitrary rules like the following
>
> "if Max heap is greater than available RAM, raise an error"
> "if Max heap is changed, also set Min heap to same value"
>
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Jesse Campbell <
> wrote:
>> hey, been looking for something like this to come along, looks like a very
>> clean, sane way to handle it :D
>>
>> in your todo you have ensure min and max heap should be the same. why is
>> this?
>>
>> i didn't dig to far into the code, but will it support parsing a space
>> delimited string, as the current tomcat and tomcat6 cookbooks expect, or
>> will the cookbook be expected to handle that?
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Bryan Berry <
>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> hey folks,
>>>
>>> i have written a little gem to parse JVM options and would love some
>>> feedback on it. Managing JVM options in a cookbooks is a total PITA
>>> and I hope this makes it easier. This is less than alpha quality, i am
>>> posting it here to get some feedback, not to notify others of a
>>> production-ready tool. I foresee it being used in Java-related
>>> cookbooks to provide a set of application-specific defaults and then
>>> make it easy to override or add to them in recipe code.
>>>
>>>
https://github.com/bryanwb/jvmargs
>>>
>>> This library parses JVM options so that any given option is only
>>> stored once. It does this by breaking each option into one of the
>>> three option categories:
>>>
>>> 1. standard, ex: -server, -enablesystemassertions
>>> 2. nonstandard, ex: -Xmx128M, -Xint
>>> 3. unstable, ex: -XX:-DisableExplicitGC, -XX:AltStack=128M
>>> 4. directive, ex: -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote
>>>
>>> JVMArgs will ensure that only one value is stored for any given
>>> option. Here is a quick example
>>>
>>> args = JVMArgs::Args.new("-XX:-DisableExplicitGC", "-Xmx256M")
>>> # "-XX:-DisableExplicitGC" is now stored in args
>>> args.add("-XX:+DisableExplicitGC")
>>> args.add("-Xmx2G")
>>> # the settings are now "-XX:+DisableExplicitGC" and "-Xmx2G"
>>
>>