Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:36:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Havard Eidnes <he@uninett.no> To: kjkoster@kjkoster.org Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org, shark.fin.soup@mac.com Subject: Re: Why cannot I allocate more than -Xmx700M Message-ID: <20080819.223614.66313564.he@uninett.no> In-Reply-To: <3CD88297-2C6A-4E1C-A114-002599898B91@kjkoster.org> References: <48AA6E00.7040408@irfu.se> <728977D1-FDFA-495B-80D3-D9D060FA5082@mac.com> <3CD88297-2C6A-4E1C-A114-002599898B91@kjkoster.org>
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> > I think I was 1 GIG of physical ram. I am getting service in for my= = > > machine now. > > Strange. I have a box with 768MB RAM and it will happily allocate 1GB= = > for a JVM. That is, I can run "Hello World" -Xmx1G and -Xmx1000M just= = > 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
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