[geeks] Showing values used by a jvm - I am not getting something

[Andrew Jones]

On 02/28/2013 04:49 PM, Brian Dunbar wrote:
>
> I want to cry BS because you have not _changed_ anything, but ... I
> don't know everything.  Is using process status actually _not_ the
> right way to see at a glance what variables java is running?  Is there
> something going here that I don't know about?
>

I agree with you that it looks like nothing has changed, but there is an 
easy way to settle this.

Use 'jconsole' to attach to the java process with JMX.  On the "VM 
Summary" tab it gives you the maximum heap as reported by Java itself.