Hello good people,
it's now 6 years since Bug#4435069 was filed with sun, complaining about the memory limits for running the jvm.
Back then, we accepted it wasn't doable on a 32Bit machine and everyone assumed that 64Bit would solve the issue.
Well, today I try starting a jvm on a AMD64, jdk1.6.0u1 64 Bit, OpenSuse 10.2 64 Bit, and yes, I have more memory, I can use not only 1.4G, I can now use almost 2G!
But that wasn't the increase we all dreamed of, was it ?
I daresay "all" because (except for Solaris64 folks who get 4G) I find people posting stuff like -Xmx doesn't go beyond 2 Gig, and nobody answers or corrects.
Or an I mistaken, and we can somehow get more jvm memory for 64Bit Linuxes, using hidden options, kernel parameters, whatever ?
Cheers&kind regards,
Tom.
Sad but true, same like with the other dozens of threads, nobody cares to answer with this topic... :-(
Anyway, for the sake of other ppl who google for this:
In the meanwhile I got it to run with 4Gig. I had to give a "ulimit -m" with a reasonable value once, then the JVM could start.
Strange thing, I didn't have to give ulimit again (although that shell I start with shows the original small value). Maybe I need to give it again after the next reboot.
The current 4Gig limit seems to be hardcoded in the Tanuki Service Wrapper, I hear, but 4G is good enough for me for now...
All this on a AMD64, OpenSuSE 10.2 64Bit, Java6u1 64Bit.
Cheers, Tom.
