I think this may be more a general java thing. Can you try running any java class with the same command line options you are using for kafka and confirm that that also doesn't work.
-Jay On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:23 AM, David Montgomery < davidmontgom...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, <%20us...@kafka.apache.org> > > Why oh whhy can I nt start kafka 8? I am on a machine with 512 megs of ram > on digi ocean. What does one have to do to get kafka to work? > > > > root@do-kafka-sf-development-20140130051956: export > KAFKA_HEAP_OPTS="-Xmx256M -Xms128M > root@do-kafka-sf-development-20140130051956:/etc/supervisor/conf.d# > /var/lib/kafka-0.8.0-src/bin/kafka-server-start.sh > /var/lib/kafka-0.8.0-src/config/server.properties > OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: INFO: > os::commit_memory(0x00000000bad30000, 986513408, 0) failed; error='Cannot > allocate memory' (errno=12) > # > # There is insufficient memory for the Java Runtime Environment to > continue. > # Native memory allocation (malloc) failed to allocate 986513408 bytes for > committing reserved memory. > # An error report file with more information is saved as: > # /etc/supervisor/conf.d/hs_err_pid17533.log > > > Thanks >
