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Asked: 2026-05-14T06:28:44+00:00

I have set my java min/max heap size to be the same as outlined

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I have set my java min/max heap size to be the same as outlined in the Sun Docs for precise heap sizing using the following:

-Xms768m -Xmx768m

This works fine when I start tomcat, but if I run jruby from the command line it complains saying:

Error occurred during initialization of VM
Incompatible minimum and maximum heap sizes specified

I read in the jruby docs about some -J-X params but it seems silly that I would need to explicitly override my normal jvm settings.

The problem arises when I do a deploy. I try running jruby -S rake db:migrate on my server and it complains.

Is it true that I need to explicitly override my JVM settings when running jruby? It seems as though ANY Xms/Xmx values cause jruby to complain.

Update
So it seems that some settings do in fact work. For instance all of these work:

Xmx256m Xms256m
Xmx512m Xms256m
Xmx512m Xms500m

But these don’t:

Xmx512m Xms512m
Xmx512m Xms501m
Xmx768m Xms512m
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  1. Editorial Team

    This seems to be a limitation of JRuby’s shell launcher. The good news that the native JRuby launcher handles that properly, you could install it via:

    jruby -S gem install jruby-launcher

    P.S. In case you see such problems, feel free to file bugs against JRuby: http://bugs.jruby.org

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