Index: bin/hbase =================================================================== --- bin/hbase (revision 1198970) +++ bin/hbase (working copy) @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ # figure out which class to run if [ "$COMMAND" = "shell" ] ; then - CLASS="org.jruby.Main ${HBASE_HOME}/bin/hirb.rb" + CLASS="org.jruby.Main -X+O ${HBASE_HOME}/bin/hirb.rb" elif [ "$COMMAND" = "hbck" ] ; then CLASS='org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.HBaseFsck' elif [ "$COMMAND" = "hlog" ] ; then