The JVM argument -server provides a significantly better compiler performance for long running tasks and improves the performance of the JVM when running applications such as JIRA.

By default the JVM inspects the hardware it is running on and decides whether it should deploy the -client or the -server flag depending on the hardware of the server that the JVM is running on, which means that customers running JIRA on machines with lower hardware specifications may find their JVM is running in -client mode and as such the performance of their instance may suffer.

There is no harm in explicitly telling the JVM to run in server mode, so this feature request is to ask that we add this flag to the startup scripts of JIRA to ensure that the application is always running on a JVM in server mode.