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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sven_K=F6hler?= <remove-sven.koehler@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 32G ram
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:40:28 +0100
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Am 17.12.2012 04:05, schrieb mcheung63@gmail.com:
> hi all
>    i got 32GB ram, why i can't -Xmx2G, it got an error "Could not create the Java Virtual Machine"

Well, because you decided not to run a 64Bit OS on your machine.

> /root>free -m
>              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:         32387      16973      15413          0        243      11906
> -/+ buffers/cache:       4823      27563
> Swap:         1906          0       1906
> /root>uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 3.6.9-2.fc17.i686.PAE #1 SMP Tue Dec 4 14:15:28 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Please install a 64Bit OS. That will get rid of the overhead that PAE
causes and will allow individual processes (e.g. a virtual machine) to
consume more than just a few gigs of memory.


Regards,
  Sven