I thought the only way to run a 64bit VM was on solaris, which means
you have to use the Sun JVM.  Does IBM offer a 64bit JVM now?

peter


On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:55:44 -0500, Caldarale, Charles R
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> > From: Dale, Matt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [OT] - JVM Max Heap Size on Linux
> >
> > Has anyone got around the maximum heap size of 2G on linux?
> > We've got a new server with 12G of ram which was going to be
> > used for an uber tomcat but this plan may have to be changed
> > if we can't get more than 2G of memory used for the JVM.
> 
> What kind of hardware?  A single process on a regular x86 machine can only access 
> 4GB of virtual space, regardless of the amount of real memory you have, unless you 
> use some of the OS-specific address extension mechanisms (which the JVM doesn't).  
> If you have an AMD64 and the appropriate version of Linux, you could try the Sun 
> 64-bit JVM (see the 5.0 Beta 3 download list).
> 
> - Chuck
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