> I suppose that one can, effectively, do this by careful specification > of the minimum and maximum sizes. I'm not sure what the limits of > the JVM are for memory, but something like a minimum of 32 or 64 MB > and a maximum of 2 or 4 GB should do it.
I always figured that if you tell Java it can use more memory than the system actually has, Java will crash hard when it tries to grab memory that isn't there, as opposed to the fairly graceful failure/error-dialog you get now. That's the reason not to just bump the allocation to 4GB. However, I don't actually know that this is the case. If we can establish that it's safe to, say, give 2GB to Java on a system with 512MB RAM, then I'll happily bump up the default allocation. rk [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
