I seem to remember of a post recently in a newsgroup (or was it on a web
site...), telling that there was a trend now to question the tuning of the
heap size with Xms=Xmx, as it would lead to memory fragmentation (preventing
heap shrinkage and leading to unexpected ...

http://www.sys-con.com/story/print.cfm?storyid=45250
Any comments?
Thanks
Gaurav

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