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Subject: Re: Why cannot I allocate more than -Xmx700M
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> > I think I was 1 GIG of physical ram. I am getting service in for my=
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> > machine now.
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> Strange. I have a box with 768MB RAM and it will happily allocate 1GB=
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> for a JVM. That is, I can run "Hello World" -Xmx1G and -Xmx1000M just=
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> fine.

Surely, what matters is not the amount of physical ram in the box
(although "more is better" is a good rule of thumb :-), but the
total amount of virtual memory?  I.e. the amount of configured
swap space also enters into the equation.

Regards,

- H=E5vard