In the 3.x line of the buildpack, config/open_jdk_jre.yml supported a memory_initials mapping, allowing the initial size of each memory region (heap, permgen, metaspace) to be configured as a percentage of its calculated maximum. (https://github.com/cloudfoundry/java-buildpack/blob/3.x/docs/jre-open_jdk_jre.md). This option no longer appears from v4.0 onward (2017), including the current Go-based v5.x buildpack.
Because -Xmx is only known at container start (it depends on the memory limit assigned to the app instance), we cannot set a matching or proportional -Xms value ourselves via JAVA_OPTS, because we'd need to know the calculated -Xmx ahead of time. In practice this means our JVMs start with a small default initial heap and grow it under load, causing avoidable heap-resize activity that didn't happen back when memory_initials was available.
Could memory_calculator support such an option again to set the initial heap size as a percentage of the calculated max heap? This would let us keep using the automatic memory calculation while avoiding heap growth pauses after startup.
In the 3.x line of the buildpack, config/open_jdk_jre.yml supported a memory_initials mapping, allowing the initial size of each memory region (heap, permgen, metaspace) to be configured as a percentage of its calculated maximum. (https://github.com/cloudfoundry/java-buildpack/blob/3.x/docs/jre-open_jdk_jre.md). This option no longer appears from v4.0 onward (2017), including the current Go-based v5.x buildpack.
Because -Xmx is only known at container start (it depends on the memory limit assigned to the app instance), we cannot set a matching or proportional -Xms value ourselves via JAVA_OPTS, because we'd need to know the calculated -Xmx ahead of time. In practice this means our JVMs start with a small default initial heap and grow it under load, causing avoidable heap-resize activity that didn't happen back when memory_initials was available.
Could memory_calculator support such an option again to set the initial heap size as a percentage of the calculated max heap? This would let us keep using the automatic memory calculation while avoiding heap growth pauses after startup.