topic Re: Limiting machine agent memory utilization in Splunk AppDynamics

Limiting machine agent memory utilization

CommunityUser — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 19:02:56 GMT

Hi Team,

Could someone help me with limiting the memory utilized by AppDynamics machine agent to 100MB. I tried starting the machine agent with Xms and Xmx parameter like below, but that did not help in limiting the memory used by machine agent.

nohup java -jar /appdynamics/machine-agent/machineagent.jar -Xmx100m -Xms64m &

Thanks,

Santosh

Re: Limiting machine agent memory utilization

Paul_Szoke — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 10:16:30 GMT

Has there been any response or solution provided to this?

Re: Limiting machine agent memory utilization

iamryan — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 19:52:35 GMT

Hello,

I found some documentation.

That states this:

The lightweight Standalone Machine Agent consumes minimal resources of your computer.

AppDynamics recommends the following additional Heap and PermGen space to accommodate the agent:

Maximum heap size (-Xmx): 100 MB
Maximum PermGen heap size (-XX:MaxPermSize): 20 MB

Looks similar to what you tried, but perhaps it may help.

Re: Limiting machine agent memory utilization

Gareth_Humphrie — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:46:31 GMT

Make sure you pass the options before specifying the jar. e.g.:

$ java -Xmx100m -Xms64m -jar /appdynamics/machine-agent/machineagent.jar

Instead of

$ java -jar /appdynamics/machine-agent/machineagent.jar -Xmx100m -Xms64m