Could have just been the amount of memory it was given. I think java needs 512M just to load System.out.println ;-) Back in my day we wrote our print routines in assembly language and our professors would beat us severely if the executable was more than 2K!
Seriously though, I don't know all the data that gets passed back to the service, but I usually find a 2gb heap size to be pretty comfy. I can still blow through it if I enable a tree results listener and start downloading gigabytes of requests from a server -- the results keep accumulating in the listener and never go away. But even for tests where I have to deal with some fairly hefty images, 2gb works pretty well for me. I had someone request that I do something with a 2gb file one time though, that was annoying. I looked at doing something with it in raw java, but every library I looked at to decode it wanted to load the whole thing into memory at once. I ended up just making them give me a smaller file to work with. -- Bruce Ide flyingrhenqu...@gmail.com
