On Sunday 05 June 2005 04:49 pm Mark Wedel wrote: [...] > Increasing the heap size really just masks the problem. OTOH, I think the > default is probably pretty low for how much memory most systems probably have > now days. According to "man java" the default is 64MB: -Xmxn Specifies the maximum size, in bytes, of the memory allocation pool. This value must be a multiple of 1024 greater than 2 MB. Append the letter k or K to indicate kilobytes or the letter m or M to indicate megabytes. The default value is 64MB. Exam- ples: -Xmx83886080 -Xmx81920k -Xmx80m Gene -- Linux era4.eracc.UUCP 2.6.8.1-12mdk i686 18:03:36 up 18 days, 18:40, 8 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 ERA Computer Consulting - http://www.eracc.com/ eCS, OS/2, Mandriva Linux, OpenServer & UnixWare resellers