Re: 32G ram

From:
Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 17 Dec 2012 15:38:16 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<69b7ccde-6a63-452b-a14d-38e7eef0804d@googlegroups.com>
Arne Vajh=F8j wrote:

Donkey Hottie wrote:

Arne Vajh=F8j kirjoitti:

mcheung63 wrote:

     i [sic] got 32GB ram, why i [sic] can't -Xmx2G, it got an error "=

Could not

create the Java Virtual Machine"


Because you allocated all the available memory to the heap, and none to the=
 JVM
or class space, stack, ... .

How much RAM you have is irrelevant; it's how much RAM you are allowed to a=
llocate
per process with a 32-bit Java.

Assuming the other posters are correct and you're using a 32-bit system. Ar=
e you?

That might have been good to tell us in the beginning.

/root>free -m
               total used free shared buffers
cached
Mem: 32387 16973 15413 0 243 11=

906

-/+ buffers/cache: 4823 27563
Swap: 1906 0 1906
/root>uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 3.6.9-2.fc17.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Dec 4
14:15:28 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux


32 bit or 64 bit Java?

 

Apparently 32 bit, as the i686 OS is 32 bit PAE too.

 
Then that explains it.
 
32 bit Java on x86 usually only allows for around 1.7 GB
of heap space.


Bear in mind, OP, that "2 GB" is the maximum allocation for the *entire pro=
cess*, not
just the heap. If you allocate the whole amount for heap, that leaves nothi=
ng for stack
or the interpreter. That's why it fails.

So the 1.7 GB or so is all you can get and still leave room for Java itself=
..

But why, pray tell, are you using a 32-bit system?

--
Lew

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