diff --git a/packaging/systemd/cloudstack-management.default b/packaging/systemd/cloudstack-management.default
index de41a6d8969..6444c61858b 100644
--- a/packaging/systemd/cloudstack-management.default
+++ b/packaging/systemd/cloudstack-management.default
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 # specific language governing permissions and limitations
 # under the License.
 
-JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.security.properties=/etc/cloudstack/management/java.security.ciphers -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote=false -Xmx2G -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=/var/log/cloudstack/management/ -XX:ErrorFile=/var/log/cloudstack/management/cloudstack-management.err "
+JAVA_OPTS="-Djava.security.properties=/etc/cloudstack/management/java.security.ciphers -Djava.awt.headless=true -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote=false -Xmx2G -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=500 -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -XX:HeapDumpPath=/var/log/cloudstack/management/ -XX:ErrorFile=/var/log/cloudstack/management/cloudstack-management.err "
 
 CLASSPATH="/usr/share/cloudstack-management/lib/*:/etc/cloudstack/management:/usr/share/cloudstack-common:/usr/share/cloudstack-management/setup:/usr/share/cloudstack-management:/usr/share/java/mysql-connector-java.jar"