I've used Sun's 1.5 Beta on AMD64 and verified that heap allocation
maxes out at 12GB (I'm on a 32GB machine running RHAS 3.0 x86-64).



On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 10:01, Peter Lin wrote:
> I thought the only way to run a 64bit VM was on solaris, which means
> you have to use the Sun JVM.  Does IBM offer a 64bit JVM now?
> 
> peter
> 
> 
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:55:44 -0500, Caldarale, Charles R
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > From: Dale, Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: [OT] - JVM Max Heap Size on Linux
> > >
> > > Has anyone got around the maximum heap size of 2G on linux?
> > > We've got a new server with 12G of ram which was going to be
> > > used for an uber tomcat but this plan may have to be changed
> > > if we can't get more than 2G of memory used for the JVM.
> > 
> > What kind of hardware?  A single process on a regular x86 machine can only access 
> > 4GB of virtual space, regardless of the amount of real memory you have, unless you 
> > use some of the OS-specific address extension mechanisms (which the JVM doesn't).  
> > If you have an AMD64 and the appropriate version of Linux, you could try the Sun 
> > 64-bit JVM (see the 5.0 Beta 3 download list).
> > 
> > - Chuck
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