This isn't specific to Mahout: Error occurred during initialization of VM Could not reserve enough space for object heap
This means that you set a heap size that is too big for the machine. For example, maybe you requested a 4GB heap on a 32-bit machine. On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Videnova, Svetlana <svetlana.viden...@logica.com> wrote: > Please can somebody help me with this error? > > > Im using mahout 0.7 > > > /usr/local/mahout-distribution-0.7/examples/bin$ ./build-reuters.sh > Please call cluster-reuters.sh directly next time. This file is going away. > Please select a number to choose the corresponding clustering algorithm > 1. kmeans clustering > 2. fuzzykmeans clustering > 3. dirichlet clustering > 4. minhash clustering > Enter your choice : 1 > ok. You chose 1 and we'll use kmeans Clustering > creating work directory at /tmp/mahout-work-hduser > MAHOUT_LOCAL is set, so we don't add HADOOP_CONF_DIR to classpath. > Warning: $HADOOP_HOME is deprecated. > > MAHOUT_LOCAL is set, running locally > Error occurred during initialization of VM > Could not reserve enough space for object heap > Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine. > Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit. > Warning: $HADOOP_HOME is deprecated. > > rmr: cannot remove /tmp/mahout-work-hduser/reuters-out-seqdir: No such file > or directory. > Warning: $HADOOP_HOME is deprecated. > > put: File /tmp/mahout-work-hduser/reuters-out-seqdir does not exist. >