It also depends on how much effort was put into optimizing the system. Quite often , people abuse -Xms and -Xmx by setting it to an unnecessarily high number. O

It also depends on how much effort was put into optimizing the system. Quite often , people abuse -Xms and -Xmx by setting it to an unnecessarily high number. Or not checking their code for memory leaks. I am often surprised by how many java programmers have never run their code through a profiler.