Re: [vassalengine-devel] [vassalengine] Memory leak discussion

[Rodney K. <rod...@co...>]

> c) the mod is being run on a low end machine probably with only 512mb or
> less, possibly even 768mb may not be enough.
>

Sounds plausible.  Thanks for looking at it.

If my understanding of JVM is correct (I may be totally wrong here though)
> the JVM (when set up on my machine at least) can not be larger than the
> actual physical Ram the computer has, minus OS space and other programs i=
n
> memory at time of initialization (or it plain wont start up and give you =
an
> environment error =96 Ive seen this before J ) as this is the environment
> space with which it will operate in. Once it runs out of available physic=
al
> Ram it will then use HD swap space to keep going (I think?) and eventuall=
y
> OOM tank.
>

Java will through the OOM when it needs more memory than you've given it.
You can give it more than your physical RAM; it will just use swap space an=
d
crawl like a dog.  You won't get an OOM error just because you've started t=
o
swap.

rk