java.lang.OutOfMemoryError

Posted in Code, Java by Elliott Back on January 3rd, 2007.

Isn’t this a cute little error:

Exception java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: requested 4096000 bytes for GrET* in C:/BUILD_AREA/jdk1.5.0_09/hotspot\src\share\vm\utilities\growableArray.cpp. Out of swap space?

I got home from Shanghai to see this guy, although I’m not sure why a request for 4MB of memory would fail…

Update: I wasn’t leaking memory or anything, either. And I gave a big heap to play with. Maybe the system as a whole ran out of some kind of addressable memory, say threads or process space, and it threw this error. I don’t honestly know, since this was on Windows XP 32bit Pro, and not linux. I neglected at the time to save a coredump, as well.

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tariq 1 year ago 1 point
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hi there
me also came across the same exception
Exception java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: requested 4096000 bytes for GrET* in D:/BUILD_AREA/jdk1.5.0_09/hotspot\src\share\vm\utilities\growableArray.cpp. Out of swap space?
am running JRUN 4 in win2000 my heap size for JRUN jvm settings is
128M min and 512 Max .plz help me regarding this issuw
or even mail me to asmdt at yahoo dot com

tnx

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xpdz 1 year ago 1 point
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hi, pls refer to this thread, i think it helpful:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=...

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prashant 10 months ago 1 point
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if u set your JVM memory max 1Gb or more.
so it will not help u.
Becoz after some time it may again full.
u have to maintain your code so that..
Not allocate memory through new inside any loop which is called many times,
it again and again allocate the memory...

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