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I have a program that needs a lot of memory and want to set the maximum heap space at 6024MB.
Java gives me the error:
Invalid maximum heap size: -Xmx6024m
The specified size exceeds the maximum representable size.
Is there a workaround?
There are big differences between how many heap one can allocate between the different Java VMs. E.g. Sun’s VM needs to allocate the memory as a single block from the OS. This limitation does not exist for Oracle’s JRockit VM. It is also OS dependent — e.g. I was able to allocate more heap with Sun’s VM using Linux than was possible with Windows XP. Also note that I read somewhere that the problem goes away for 64bit OSes…
Edit:
Here’s a blog entry about Sun’s JVM and Java heap space issues on 32bit Windows OSes.