Unable to start VM with JDK8 on Linux/x64

[Andrew Haley]

Hi,

On 04/14/2014 07:37 AM, Stefan Karlsson wrote:
 > On 2014-04-14 03:53, Krystal Mok wrote:
>> Hi Stefan,
>>
>> Unfortunately, overcommit_memory=2 isn't the cause. The original bug 
>> reporter ran the test again in a 3GB virtual machine [1], and saw:
>>
>> $ cat /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
>> 0
>> $ cat /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_ratio
>> 50
>> $ ~/jdk1.8.0/bin/java
>> Error occurred during initialization of VM
>> Could not allocate metaspace: 1073741824 bytes
> 
> Then I don't know. Maybe the virtualization layer prevents the overcommit?

That is certainly possible.  I know for certain that some virtualization
layers effectively disable overcommit.

Andrew.