[jboss-user] [Performance Tuning] - Re: Maximum XMX value on 32bit Windows Machine

2009-04-29 Thread ntnlljboss
Thank you again Peter, always fast and accurate. Antonello View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=viewtopicp=4227415#4227415 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bbop=postingmode=replyp=4227415 ___

[jboss-user] [Performance Tuning] - Re: Maximum XMX value on 32bit Windows Machine

2009-04-28 Thread PeterJ
On a 32-bit system each process is limited to 4GB of address space. 2GB of that is used by the OS (handles and other data used by the OS to service your app), Some of the low memory is occupied by stuff that dates back to MS-DOS. Much of the memory area just below the 2GB mark is occupied by