Re: OT: java memory question -Xmx2048m

2008-02-25 Thread David Delbecq
En l'instant précis du 25/02/08 13:51, Dave s'exprimait en ces termes: Our Linux(FC) machine has 8G physical memory and 12G swap size. I am using JDK 1.5. I tried to set the Java option -Xmx to set max heap size for best performance, the allowed max heap size is 2048M . Does that mean

Re: OT: java memory question -Xmx2048m

2008-02-25 Thread Roland Brassous (SILOGIC)
Hi everyOne From adobe Faq On 32-bit processor machines, the largest contiguous memory address space the operating system can allocate to a process is 1.8GB. Because of this, the maximum heap size can only be set up to 1.8GB. On 64-bit processor machines, the 1.8 GB limit does not apply, as

Re: OT: java memory question -Xmx2048m

2008-02-25 Thread Mikolaj Rydzewski
Dave wrote: Our Linux(FC) machine has 8G physical memory and 12G swap size. Happy swapping ;-) -- Mikolaj Rydzewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: OT: java memory question -Xmx2048m

2008-02-25 Thread Dave
I installed Linux FC6 64-bit on the machine DELL 2590(I think it is INTEL type CPU). But JVM 64-bit is only available for AMD and SPARC. Is the SUN not support INTEL? Thanks, Dave David Delbecq [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: En l'instant précis du 25/02/08 13:51, Dave s'exprimait en ces

Re: OT: java memory question -Xmx2048m

2008-02-25 Thread Alan Chaney
For some reason Linux always calls 64 bit OSes 'AMD' - in fact, the sun 64 bit AMD version works fine on modern 64 bit Intel CPUs. The confusion comes because there was an older 64 bit design from Intel called the 'Itanium' which was intended for servers and had a completely different