--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp Fri Oct 11 13:14:48 2013 -0700
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/globals.hpp Sat Oct 12 05:08:42 2013 +0000
@@ -3125,10 +3125,14 @@
"class pointers are used") \
\
product(uintx, MinHeapFreeRatio, 40, \
- "The minimum percentage of heap free after GC to avoid expansion")\
+ "The minimum percentage of heap free after GC to avoid expansion."\
+ " For most GCs this applies to the old generation. In G1 it" \
+ " applies to the whole heap. Not supported by ParallelGC.") \
\
product(uintx, MaxHeapFreeRatio, 70, \
- "The maximum percentage of heap free after GC to avoid shrinking")\
+ "The maximum percentage of heap free after GC to avoid shrinking."\
+ " For most GCs this applies to the old generation. In G1 it" \
+ " applies to the whole heap. Not supported by ParallelGC.") \
\
product(intx, SoftRefLRUPolicyMSPerMB, 1000, \
"Number of milliseconds per MB of free space in the heap") \