--- old/src/share/vm/runtime/arguments.cpp	2016-05-25 12:06:50.757335645 -0400
+++ new/src/share/vm/runtime/arguments.cpp	2016-05-25 12:06:48.929231766 -0400
@@ -1555,7 +1555,7 @@
   // Preferred young gen size for "short" pauses:
   // upper bound depends on # of threads and NewRatio.
   const size_t preferred_max_new_size_unaligned =
-    MIN2(max_heap/(NewRatio+1), ScaleForWordSize(young_gen_per_worker * ParallelGCThreads));
+    MAX2(max_heap/(NewRatio+1), ScaleForWordSize(young_gen_per_worker * ParallelGCThreads));
   size_t preferred_max_new_size =
     align_size_up(preferred_max_new_size_unaligned, os::vm_page_size());