On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 11:54 +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > Chris Hostetter wrote: > > 1) I didn't know there were any JVMs that limited the heap size to 1GB ... > > a 32bit address space would impose a hard limit of 4GB, and I've heard > > that Windows limits process to 2GB, but I don't know of any JVMs that have > > 1GB limits. > > > > I believe all Win32 JVM-s have a limit of ~1.3GB (~1.9GB if using > rebase.exe), which quite often can't be reached anyway due to memory > fragmentation. Read here for a somewhat funny analysis: > > *http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2005/01/what_is_the_largest_text_file.html* > > *nix OS-es on 32-bit platforms indeed have 4GB addressing space, but at > least 1GB of this space is reserved for kernel use ... If I'm not > mistaken most 2.6.x Linux distros run now with 1GB/3GB split between > kernel/user space, and 2.4.x kernels ran with 2GB/2GB split.
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