Does -Xms really disable XX:MaxRAMPercentage? Shouldn't it be -Xmx that disables XX:MaxRAMPercentage?

Question

According to Eclipse and IBM, if you specify -Xms, -XX:MaxRAMPercentage is ignored. Shouldn't it be

• if you specify -Xmx, -XX:MaxRAMPercentage is ignored
• and if you specify -Xms, XX:InitialRAMPercentage is ignored?

Quoted from both Eclipse and IBM:

Note: If you set a value for -Xms, these options are ignored.

Notice: you might consider marking this at a duplicate of Do java flags Xms and Xmx overwrite flag XX:+UseCGroupMemoryLimitForHeap? , but in that question they ask if Xmx overrides XX:MaxRAMPercentage respectively. Here I want to know if Xms overrides/disables XX:MaxRAMPercentage.

Answer 1

@Holger's comment answers this question.

• @Holger tested openjdk 11, and observed -Xms had no affect on -XX:MaxRAMPercentage=75.0
• @joseph tested openjdk 8, and also observed -Xms had no affect on -XX:MaxRAMPercentage=75.0

Those Eclipse and IBM docs are incorrect.