You can go ahead and improve the help text immediately On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 10:00 AM Kenneth Howe <kh...@pivotal.io> wrote:
> +1 to deprecating the existing option and removing it in 2.0. The default > then will be to retain the addition of the appropriate -X JVM argument > unless/until we choose to implement Kirk’s first suggestion. > > > On Aug 8, 2018, at 9:53 AM, Kirk Lund <kl...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > We might want to: > > > > 1) introduce disable-default-jvm-arguments and implement it to ensure > that > > GFSH is not adding any -X args when this option is enabled > > > > 2) deprecate disable-exit-when-out-of-memory and then remove it in 2.0 > > > > On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 3:59 PM, Helena Bales <hba...@pivotal.io> wrote: > > > >> Hello Geode devs, > >> > >> There is an option on the start server Gfsh command that, according to > the > >> help message "Prevents the JVM from exiting when an OutOfMemoryError > >> occurs. When this option is *not* set, a JVM argument gets added, > depending > >> on which JVM you are using, to kill the JVM when an OutOfMemoryError > >> occurs. While setting the option does prevent those arguments from being > >> set, it does not keep the JVM alive after an OutOfMemoryError occurs. > >> > >> Since this option does not do what its help message or name promises, I > >> would like to propose that we either remove it or rename it to make its > >> name more closely match its behaviour. > >> > >> ~Helena Bales > >> > >