The Sun JVM attempts to allocate a contiguous section of memory from its 
available address space.  Considering that on a 32-bit box you have only 2GB of 
available address per process, and that typical application stuff (code and 
whatnot) takes up low memory space and that the majority of the Windows DLLs 
take up high memory, you will end up with a significantly smaller amount of 
memory avaiulable for the heap.  So you will have to decrease your heap size.  
I can't recall the maximum heap we have ever gotten out of Windows 2003, though 
1.4 GB comes to mind.

Also, setting the /3GB boot option will not help because even with that option 
there is not enough contiguous memory available for the size of heap you want.

However, you could use a JVM that doesn't need contiguous memory space to 
allocate the heap, and such a JVM might be able to allocate a big heap even 
without the /3GB heap option.  The Unisys JVM (available at 
http://ecommunity.unisys.com/ecommunity/templates/longdescription.aspx?DocID=62563,
 requires free registration) does not require contiguous memory.  If I recall 
correctly, we have gotten heaps of about 1.7GB without the /3GB boot option and 
around 2.7GB with the /3GB boot option.  Of course, your mileage may vary.


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