New candidate JEP: 387: Elastic Metaspace

Posted on July 7, 2020

Since its inception in JEP 122, metaspace has been somewhat notorious for high off-heap memory usage. Most normal applications don't have problems, but it is easy to tickle the metaspace allocator in just the wrong way to cause excessive memory waste. Unfortunately these types of pathological cases are not uncommon…

More at https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/387