tweak FreeBSD 8 for optimal java/weka performance

[Simon Olofsson]

On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 14:28 -0800, Greg Lewis wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 06:54:22AM -0800, Dino Vliet wrote:
> > Are there any other tweaks I should think of to get as much RAM for
> > my java programs?
>
> IIRC there is an option to tell the JVM to use as much RAM as possible,
> but I don't recall it off the top of my head.  There should be some docs
> on this on the main Java site at Sun and they will be equally relevant to
> FreeBSD as they are to any other OS.

http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/performance.jsp
is a good starting point.
There are many articles and books available for maximizing Java
performance. Maybe the weka people also have some advice.

Regards
Simon