Why cannot I allocate more than -Xmx700M

[Artem Gr]

Sharkie wrote:
> Well, now it's now really interesting.
> I made a typo in my previous post.
> Basically I have a 4GIG machine.
> But somehow I lost 1GIG and now have only 3. I am getting serviced this 
> Friday so will find out.
> 
> That aside, I have 16GIG of SWAPSPACE, and 3GIG of actual RAM.
> 
> I am still unable to allocate more than -Xmx700M

You'll need a 64-bit version of the operating system in order to 
allocate large amounts of Virtual Memory. 32-bit OS have around 4 GB of 
virtual memory and more than half is reserved to the OS.