What is the default maximum heap size for Sun's JVM from Java SE 6?

Question

What is the default maximum heap size for Sun\'s JVM from Java SE 6 (i.e. equivalent to setting -Xmx)?

Looks like for Java SE 5 with a server-class machine, it\'s

Answer 1

With JDK, You can also use jinfo to connect to the JVM for the in question and get the value for MaxHeapSize:

jinfo -flag MaxHeapSize