Is there a maximum value for the heap size parameter -Xmx under w2k

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E. Ulrich Kriegel - 28 May 2004 14:09 GMT

Hi there,
I use the latest 1.4 version in a VMWare virual W2000 environment
running on a 2,6GByte Linux box. The virtual machine is started with
2448 GByte RAM, however, java crashes if I try to allocate more than
approx 1.6GByte for the heap. Is there a limit under windows - using
solaris that problem does not occur.

Thanks
--ulrich

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Roedy Green - 28 May 2004 19:36 GMT

>Is there a limit under windows - using
>solaris that problem does not occur.

Windows has an addressing limit of 2GIG. You have to leave something
for the system overhead.

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