Increase memory limits for IcedTea

[Andrew Haley]

Andrew Haley writes:
 > The fairly low default limits on PermGen and MaxHeap space cause a
 > great deal of trouble on Linux, partiularly when running Eclipse.
 > Fedora maintainers considered adding a special wrapper script to
 > Eclipse that sets "-XX:MaxPermSize=128m" or something similar, but
 > this would only solve the problem for Eclipse: non-Eclipse
 > applications would continue to be bitten the same way.
 > 
 > In the end, Sun's Java seems to be the only VM that is affected by the
 > VMGen 

Sorry, the PermGen limit.

 > limit, and there are many references on the web to confused
 > users hitting it and having no idea how to proceed.  It makes sense
 > for Fedora and other Linux distros to bump the limit to something that
 > better fits the kinds of applications people are running.

Andrew.

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