Thank you Alan for your help. I use top to get the 4G free memory: Mem: 8309064k total, 3426680k used, 4882384k free, 163308k buffers. Your are right, my 4 processors mean 4 cores (2 dual-core processors) I think I will take your workaround #2.
Regards, Henry -----Original Message----- From: Alan Chaney [mailto:a...@compulsivecreative.com] Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 6:30 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: what is the upper limit of maximum heap memory for Tomcat with 32-bit JVM running on Red Hat Linux 4 (32-bit) You are using a 32 bit operating system and a 32 bit processor. To make more than 4GB of ram available you must ensure that you have PAE support enabled in your kernel (search Google for Physical Address Extension) which may mean re-compiling for RHEL 4 (see Red Hat). Your processor may not support it but I'd suspect that when you say 4 processors you probably mean 4 cores and I believe all 4 core Intel CPUs do support PAE. Re-reading your email I see that you say that you have 4.5G of free memory - how did you determine this? 'top'? Even so, I cannot find any clear statement on the web that the 32 bit JRE will be able to address more than 4G even if you do have PAE enabled. I suspect not. Actually, 'suspect' is way too mild a term ... I would be completely astounded if you could... Possible workarounds are: 1. Try running 2 JVMs ( when you have PAE enabled) - of course this may not work in your application (you'd have to have two Tomcat instances.) 2. Your other 'workaround' is to install a 64 bit OS and a 64 bit JVM. Then you can have 7G+ for the JVM. Regards Alan Chaney Li,Henry wrote: > My Tomcat is running on 32-bit Red Hat 4 (2.6.9-78.0.1.ELsmp), host server > has 8G physical memory and 4 processors. > java version "1.4.2" gcj (GCC) 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-10) > I got java.lang.OutOfMemoryError > Current configuration: -Xms1024M -Xmx2304M > The host server has about 4.5G free memory. When I tried to increase > -Xmx2304M to -Xmx3000M, I got this error: > Error occurred during initialization of VM, Could not reserve enough space > for object heap > The maximum # I can reach is -Xmx2680M. > QUESTION: Is there an upper limit for -Xmx? What is the work around? How can > I use my free memory on the server to > get rid of the OutOfMemoryError? > > Thanks, > Henry > > > > > !DSPAM:4a68ee3b41041381456296! > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
