Cornel, Thanks, it's helpful to know that I'm not the only one who has seen this, and it suggests that it might be helpful to add a note to the Windows install instructions. Another -Xmx pitfall that I forgot to mention is that if you're installing Apollo on a shared volume for use by more than one machine, you have to be careful that you don't do the installation on a machine with more memory than the others that will be using it (or, if you do, you should subsequently lower -Xmx.) I did a shared Linux install a couple of days ago using one of our high-memory machines and then wasn't able to run it on a lower memory machine, due to the -Xmx setting, which only worked on the high-memory machine.
Jonathan On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Ghiban, Cornel <[email protected]> wrote: > HI all, > > This happened to me some time ago on a 32-bit XP with 3.5GB of RAM. I > believe it was prior to v1.10. > But removing or setting the -Xmx option to a lower value allowed me to > start apollo. > > I hope it helps, > Cornel > > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On > Behalf Of *Jonathan Crabtree > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:26 AM > *To:* Ed Lee > *Cc:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [apollo] 1.11.0 fails to run on 64 bit Vista > > > Hi Ed, > > Here's another interesting fact about the 1.11.0 Apollo release, which is > that neither version (bundled JRE + no bundled JRE) works on my 64-bit (AMD) > Vista machine. The installation process runs fine but then when I try to > start Apollo, either from the command-line or using the Windows Start menu, > I get a dialog box that says it failed and something to the effect of "maybe > an exception occurred in the main method." (I don't have the machine booted > into Vista right now and I can't remember the exact text.) I discovered > there's a simple workaround, which is to delete the apollo.vmoptions file in > the main Apollo install directory; presumably the -Xmx setting was causing > problems (even though it was set to way below the real memory size of the > machine). Someone else here tried the install on a Windows XP machine and > reported that it worked OK, and they didn't have to delete the > apollo.vmoptions file. Anyway, you might want to add a note to the Windows > install instructions to try removing apollo.vmoptions if it doesn't work out > of the box (and I'd also be interested to hear if you're able to replicate > the bug on another Vista machine.) Thanks, > > Jonathan > >
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