openjdk,icedtea - Xmx option mandatory

[Roberto Mannai]

My system has 512 mb of RAM, on a 32 bit processor.

If I try to set the Xms option, java complains it is larger than max
size, so in my opinion the jvm does not allocate any default xmx
parameter.

The error is:
"Could not reserve enough space for object heap''

The same message occurs also with java-1_6_0-openjdk.

Best regards
Roberto Mannai

On 8/4/08, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
> Roberto Mannai wrote:
>
> > For a test I've just installed:
> > java-1_7_0-icedtea
> > on my opensuse11 box.
> >
> > "java -version" command crashes with an error. In order to work, I
> > must use the  -Xmx option, also with 1m:
> >
> > java -Xmx1m -version
> >
> > Any reason for it? Is it a bug?
>
> It must be.  How much memory have you got?
>
> Andrew.
>