Thread: Java Heap Space

Well, prior to reading in the document, I did a System.out.println(Runtime.getRuntime().freeMemory ()); printout. The result was: 3655344.

What does that tell me?


EDIT: I typed: java -Xmx1g into the command prompt. Didn't do anything. I assume I did it incorrectly. If so, can you tell me actually how to do it?


EDIT AGAIN: I tried something and I think the program just doesnt like the file. It cant seem to read in the 634kb file at any point in the program. However, it is capable of reading in a 1127kb file. Any guesses as to that?

Without looking at the source, there's no way for us to know what's wrong.

When calling your program with an expanded heap space, you would use the following command line arguments:

Java myClass -Xmx1g

If you have an IDE (for example Eclipse), there's a section where you can pass VM arguments (not program arguments, these are different). Simply type -Xmx1g into there and it should start your program with 1 GB heap space.

I would provide my source, but its like 2,000 to 3,000 lines long and I believe I may be getting this because of a bug in the External Library I use to read .xlsx files. Emailed the makers, waiting for a response.

EDIT: Here is the email response:

SmartXLS use DOM to parse xml files embed in the xlsx/xlsm zip file.The DOM parser in java is very poor performance in memory using,it will throw exception if there are many xml content.The solution is add more memory to the java runtime engine.
We also had another version which is more efficient in parsing xml(use less memory and more quick),but it must run on Java5 and above.We can also provide it to licensed user(no trial available,same function but only different xml parser).