Re: Getting starnge memory error
zigzagdna wrote:
On Jun 20, 8:55?am, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:
John B. Matthews wrote:
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?zigzagdna <zigzag...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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I am coming to conclusion that java is 32 bit and the limitation of
2GB or so applies to all jvm combined and not just single jvm. ?So
even if HP UNIX is 64 BIT and my box has ?24 GB memory, ?to all jvm's
on that server only 2GB of heap memory available; so all the extra
memory is worthless.
I am unable to reproduce this. All my JVMs appear to be separate. Is
this a widely seen limitation?
It certainly does not apply on WindowsXP - at the time I was writing one
of my messages in this thread, I had 12 jobs, each with -Xmx700m,
running on a 32 bit JVM.
Although I don't have access to a suitable system to retest it, I
believe I have done similar things on large memory Sparc Solaris systems
using 32 bit JVMs. For example, I've used a 64 processor system to run
60 large Java CPU-bound jobs in parallel (I was required to leave a few
processors free for another users). I've never had problems related to
the total memory of all Java jobs, just the memory of an individual job.
Patricia
1. Keep in mind -Xmx is the maximum memory which process can have not
necssarily the memory used by the heap. You should have done a test
with -Xms700M -Xmx700M so process is taking that much memory when it
starts.
-Xmx specifies the maximum memory available for the JVM heap. It's nothing to
do with the maximum memory available to the program as a whole.
2. I learnt from HP folks that on 64 bit HP UNIX:
The maximum memory limit for 32 bit process data is 3.8 Gb if fourth
quadrant is enabled .
But this 3.8 GB is shared among all 32 bit programs ,so the total data
space of all 32bit process will be the maximum of only 3.8 GB.
From my cursory searching regarding HPUX on Itanium that would be my conclusion.
Either it's a limitation of HP-UX or the memory model used to run 32bit apps.
on the 64bit-only Itanium. The Itanium has no 32bit mode, 32bit apps. have to
run in a separate environment or via an emulation layer. It almost looks as
though HP-UX runs them in a separate virtual machine with a max. of 4GB memory
(for the entire VM).
If there is a 64bit JVM available for HP-UX that would be your best solution.
Does your JVM have the -d32 and -d64 options?
--
Nigel Wade
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