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# JVM Options
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## Memory Limit
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By default, the image declares an initial and maximum Java memory-heap limit of 1 GB. There are several ways to adjust the memory settings:
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- `MEMORY`: "1G" by default, can be used to adjust both initial (`Xms`) and max (`Xmx`) memory heap settings of the JVM
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- `INIT_MEMORY`: independently sets the initial heap size
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- `MAX_MEMORY`: independently sets the max heap size
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The values of all three are passed directly to the JVM and support format/units as `<size>[g|G|m|M|k|K]`. For example:
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-e MEMORY=2G
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To let the JVM calculate the heap size from the container declared memory limit, unset `MEMORY` with an empty value, such as `-e MEMORY=""`. By default, the JVM will use 25% of the container memory limit as the heap limit; however, as an example the following would tell the JVM to use 75% of the container limit of 2GB of memory:
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-e MEMORY="" -e JVM_XX_OPTS="-XX:MaxRAMPercentage=75" -m 2000M
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!!! important
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The settings above only set the Java **heap** limits. Memory resource requests and limits on the overall container should also account for non-heap memory usage. An extra 25% is [a general best practice](https://dzone.com/articles/best-practices-java-memory-arguments-for-container).
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## Extra JVM Options
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General JVM options can be passed to the Minecraft Server invocation by passing a `JVM_OPTS`
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environment variable. The JVM requires `-XX` options to precede `-X` options, so those can be declared in `JVM_XX_OPTS`. Both variables are space-delimited, raw JVM arguments.
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```
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docker run ... -e JVM_OPTS="-someJVMOption someJVMOptionValue" ...
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```
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**NOTE** When declaring `JVM_OPTS` in a compose file's `environment` section with list syntax, **do not** include the quotes:
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```yaml
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environment:
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- EULA=true
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- JVM_OPTS=-someJVMOption someJVMOptionValue
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```
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Using object syntax is recommended and more intuitive:
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```yaml
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environment:
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EULA: "true"
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JVM_OPTS: "-someJVMOption someJVMOptionValue"
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# or
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# JVM_OPTS: -someJVMOption someJVMOptionValue
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```
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As a shorthand for passing several system properties as `-D` arguments, you can instead pass a comma separated list of `name=value` or `name:value` pairs with `JVM_DD_OPTS`. (The colon syntax is provided for management platforms like Plesk that don't allow `=` inside a value.)
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For example, instead of passing
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```yaml
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JVM_OPTS: -Dfml.queryResult=confirm -Dname=value
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```
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you can use
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```yaml
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JVM_DD_OPTS: fml.queryResult=confirm,name=value
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```
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## Enable Remote JMX for Profiling
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To enable remote JMX, such as for profiling with VisualVM or JMC, set the environment variable `ENABLE_JMX` to "true", set `JMX_HOST` to the IP/host running the Docker container, and add a port forwarding of TCP port 7091, such as:
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!!! example
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With `docker run`
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```
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-e ENABLE_JMX=true -e JMX_HOST=$HOSTNAME -p 7091:7091
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```
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If needing to map to a different port, then also set the environment variable `JMX_PORT` to the desired host port.
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!!! example
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With a compose file:
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```yaml
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environment:
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ENABLE_JMX: true
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JMX_HOST: ${HOSTNAME}
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JMX_PORT: "7092"
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ports:
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- "7092:7092"
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```
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## Enable Aikar's Flags
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[Aikar has done some research](https://aikar.co/2018/07/02/tuning-the-jvm-g1gc-garbage-collector-flags-for-minecraft/) into finding the optimal JVM flags for GC tuning, which becomes more important as more users are connected concurrently. [PaperMC also has an explanation](https://docs.papermc.io/paper/aikars-flags) of what the JVM flags are doing.
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The set of flags documented there can be added using
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-e USE_AIKAR_FLAGS=true
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When `MEMORY` is greater than or equal to 12G, then the Aikar flags will be adjusted according to the article.
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