Agent inherit -Xmx flag from application

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Kibana version: 7.5

Elasticsearch version: 7.5

APM Server version: 7.5

APM Agent language and version: 1.8 en

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I use -javaagent flag to attach elastic-apm-agent to my java process with command:

start C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath\java.exe -javaagent:C:\Tools\apm\elastic-apm-agent-1.8.0.jar -Delastic.apm.environment=xxx -Delastic.apm.service_name=xxx -Delastic.apm.server_url=xxx -Xmx512m -Delastic.apm.secret_token=xxx -jar xxx.jar

the problem is elastic-apm-agent inherit -Xmx flag from the application, is there a way to set -Xmx different for elastic-apm-agent? E.g. -javaagent::-Xmx256m

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Hi and thanks for your question.

The agent runs within the same JVM as your application, not in separate one, thus it shares the same heap configuration with your application.

Hi,

Thanks for reply.

Regards,
Krzysztof

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