Thanks Toby, I had figured this out before you replied but didn't
refresh the page before I posted my solution. I appreciate the help!

On Jun 28, 3:59 pm, Toby Reyelts <to...@google.com> wrote:
> You need to supply --jvm_flag as a command-line argument to dev_appserver.sh
> (aka KickStart), not to java.exe. That should work the same way for the ant,
> <dev_appserver/> task. (You can see this in config/user/ant-macros.xml).
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Mike Dillon <mikedillo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Another thing to consider. I'm not using eclipse, and I'm building and
> > running the server with 'ant runserver'. I just realized that ant
> > isn't calling
> > dev_appserver.sh so I haven't been executing those args at all. When I
> > use dev_appserver.sh to run my server it chokes on --jvm_flag but will
> > run with just the -Xmx, however that has no affect.
>
> > - Mike
>
> > On Jun 28, 2:47 pm, Mike Dillon <mikedillo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Thanks,
>
> > > Yes that is exactly whats going on, the linux box has 4gb of ram, my
> > > mac has 2gb...
>
> > > And yes I tried the --jvm_flag=-Xmx512m on my mac with no success.
>
> > > - Mike
>
> > > On Jun 28, 2:42 pm, Don Schwarz <schwa...@google.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Have you tried --jvm_flag=-Xmx<whatever>m on your Mac?  It should work
> > there
> > > > too.
>
> > > > As for the Linux box, the default heap size is different depending on
> > > > whether you have a "server-class" machine or not, so it is possible
> > that you
> > > > are seeing a much higher default heap size just by virtue of using a
> > machine
> > > > with more RAM or more processors.
>
> > > > The -Xmx setting you added to dev_appserver.sh has no effect.  Your
> > code is
> > > > executed in a subprocess, which is why --jvm_flag must be used to pass
> > Java
> > > > args through to this process.
>
> > > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Mike Dillon <mikedillo...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > > > Thanks Don,
>
> > > > > I forgot to mention that I'm using a mac with the latest snow leopard
> > > > > update. It seems that these heap space
> > > > > commands are incorrect for my machine, because we just tested it on a
> > > > > linux box and it works fine, even
> > > > > without the --jvm_flag prefix.
>
> > > > > Any ideas?
>
> > > > > - Mike
>
> > > > > On Jun 28, 1:18 pm, Don Schwarz <schwa...@google.com> wrote:
> > > > > > I believe you want the following flag:
>
> > > > > > --jvm_flag=-Xmx512m
>
> > > > > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Mike Dillon <
> > mikedillo...@gmail.com>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > Hello all,
>
> > > > > > > Im working on a project that reads GTFS archives as part of its
> > > > > > > functionality. When we are importing
> > > > > > > a particular set of data that has ~60,000 entries my dev server
> > locks
> > > > > > > up around the 27,000 entry. The
> > > > > > > error is the java heap space error. I would like to know if
> > anyone has
> > > > > > > successfully upped their heap
> > > > > > > space. I searched, and found general instructions but after
> > > > > > > implementing them I'm still failing around
> > > > > > > the same entry. This is leading me to believe that my command
> > line
> > > > > > > args are not taking affect. Here
> > > > > > > is what I have so far:
>
> > > > > > > appengine-sdk-java/bin/dev_appserver.sh:
> > > > > > > #!/bin/bash
> > > > > > > # Launches the development AppServer
> > > > > > > [ -z "${DEBUG}" ] || set -x  # trace if $DEBUG env. var. is
> > non-zero
> > > > > > > SDK_BIN=`dirname $0 | sed -e "s#^\\([^/]\\)#${PWD}/\\1#"` # sed
> > makes
> > > > > > > absolute
> > > > > > > SDK_LIB=$SDK_BIN/../lib
> > > > > > > SDK_CONFIG=$SDK_BIN/../config/sdk
> > > > > > > java -Xms1024m -Xmx1024m -ea -cp
> >  "$SDK_LIB/appengine-tools-api.jar" \
> > > > > > >  com.google.appengine.tools.KickStart \
> > > > > > >  com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerMain $*
>
> > > > > > > Is this correct?
>
> > > > > > > Also the way we get our data is through a custom import function
> > that
> > > > > > > chunks the data into groups of 20
> > > > > > > and then processes them and stores them into the datastore.  We
> > are
> > > > > > > only using one instance of the
> > > > > > > persistance manager as per the recommendations to use a singleton
> > > > > > > class. Each batch hits a servlet on
> > > > > > > our app and then does its work. Should we close the persistence
> > > > > > > manager after every batch is completed?
> > > > > > > I'm wondering if this would be a memory leak.
>
> > > > > > I believe our documentation recommends storing the
> > > > > PersistenceManagerFactory
> > > > > > as a singleton, but using a new PersistenceManager each time
> > (remembering
> > > > > to
> > > > > > close it before discarding).
>
> > > > > > However, the local implementation of the datastore does keep
> > everything
> > > > > in
> > > > > > memory (and simply flushes to disk periodically), so you will run
> > into
> > > > > size
> > > > > > issues at some point.
>
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