Hi Avani, 4 gigs might be enough for your app.. But did you make sure that you are using a 64-bit jvm?
On 8/31/10 11:32 AM, "Sharma, Avani" <[email protected]> wrote: Well, I have a 16G machine and I do not want to give all memory to hbase since each hbase deamon will take 4Gigs - master and regionserver are running on the same machines and also hdfs daemons. -Avani -----Original Message----- From: Vidhyashankar Venkataraman [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 10:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Initial and max heap size Make sure you are using a 64 bit JVM as opposed to 32-bit.. 32 bit java doesn't allow more than 3-4 gigs.. On 8/31/10 10:43 AM, "Sharma, Avani" <[email protected]> wrote: Is there a way to specify an initial and max heap size to hbase ? Giving 4G to HBASE_HEAPSIZE fails to start the JVM. Thanks, Avani Sharma
