Chapter 6. Configuring the heap size for Red Hat build of OpenJDK application on RHEL

You can configure Red Hat build of OpenJDK to use a customized heap size.

Procedure

Add the maximum heap size option to the java command when running your application. For example, to set the maximum heap size to 100 megabytes, use the -Xmx100m option:
```
$ java -Xmx100m <your_application_name>
```

Additional resources

For more information about the Xmx option, see -Xmxsize in the Java documentation.

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