diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 2d76ea9aa81a41381597c5d8250471a6e995ae0f..54781c182220dc7d00b5a5bb2a8633ee08dd941d 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ COPY --from=builder app/spring-boot-loader/ ./
 COPY --from=builder app/snapshot-dependencies/ ./
 COPY --from=builder app/application/ ./
 
-RUN mkdir -p /data/logs
+RUN mkdir -p /data/logs/gc
 
 ENV EXT_JVM_OPTS="${JAVA_OPTS}"
 
-ENV JVM_OPTS="-XX:MaxRAMPercentage=80 -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch\
-              -XX:+UseG1GC -Xlog:gc*=debug:/data/logs/gc-%t.log:time,uptime\
+ENV JVM_OPTS="-XX:MaxRAMPercentage=75 -XX:MetaspaceSize=256m -XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=256m\
+              -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:G1HeapRegionSize=2m -Xlog:gc*:/data/logs/gc/gc-%t.log:time,uptime\
               -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=/data/heapdump.hprof\
               -XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow -XX:+PrintCommandLineFlags $EXT_JVM_OPTS"
 
diff --git a/k8s-deploy-template.yaml b/k8s-deploy-template.yaml
index 34c14afad23f81727045623be6c3e2163ce56d90..cb0bc25c24bb5562c14b128ed761e0cd022cd43b 100644
--- a/k8s-deploy-template.yaml
+++ b/k8s-deploy-template.yaml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ spec:
       initContainers:
         - name: ${APP_NAME}-init
           image: busybox
-          command: [ 'mkdir', '-p', "/data/logs" ]
+          command: [ 'mkdir', '-p', "/data/logs/gc" ]
           volumeMounts:
             - name: ${APP_NAME}-volume
               mountPath: /data