On any 64-bit OS, more than 2G is fine. I know several places running dedicated application servers with 16G RAM and 12G Java heaps.
Where have you read about the 2G recommendation? I want to send them an email... :-). - Peter On 4 February 2010 07:53, Wolfgang Hummel <wolfgang.hum...@energy4u.org>wrote: > Hi, > > we are running tomcat 6.20 on windows server 2003 64bit with java 1.6 > (64bit) as a Windows service. > Everything works fine but I have to increase max. heap size to 4 GB (now 2 > GB). > Machine has abaout 8 GB ram. > I know, how to do this - but I read, that it is not recommanded to > configure more than 2 GB??? > Is it true or is it depending on operating system? > > Thanx and regards > Wolfgang >
