Unrecognized VM option 'MaxPermSize=512m' Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine. Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit

Question

I updated my IDE to Android Studio Arctic Fox version and was facing this issue when I tried to sync gradle after the upgrade was complete:

"Unrecognized VM option 'MaxPermSize=512m' Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine. Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit."

I checked my java version, which was Java 17. I deleted my .gradle directory which didn't help. Reversed the gradle.properties changes made by the update. It didn't work either. I looked for maxPermSize value in my vm.studiooptions file. It wasn't there as suggested in some stackoverflow already asked questions.

Sharing the fix for this below.

Answer 1

In JDK 17 -XX:MaxPermSize=size java option has been removed, use -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize instead.

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/17/docs/specs/man/java.html#removed-java-options