Skip to main content

You are not logged in. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.

We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because community members review edits, please try to make the post substantially better than how you found it, for example, by fixing grammar or adding additional resources and hyperlinks.

1
  • This actually won't work as you explain on 32 bit Windows boxes, or at least in the sense I think you mean. The JVM needs a contiguous address range for the heap, and Windows has a hole at 2gb. So yes, it fails, but not necessarily the box is out of memory, but rather because it doesn't fit inside a single address space. Commented May 4, 2010 at 22:59