I can confirm that on a Mac it works just as Joel says. If much of the memory isn't going to be regularly accessed, it probably won't work all that badly. If it's all active, well, it isn't pretty.
--- In [email protected], Joel Uckelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I know what would happen on my Linux system: The real limit is the > amount of RAM plus swap. E.g., my desktop has 512MB RAM and 1GB of swap. > If Java allocated more than 512MB of memory, some of it would necessarily > be swap and that would likely result in a bit of thrashing. It would still > work, for some value of "work", but it wouldn't work well (I'm guessing). > > Whether it's safe depends both on how much swap there is and how much > memory is already allocated when VASSAL starts. > > What if we set the maximum memory allocation to some fraction of the user's > total RAM, say 0.5? (This happens to be what I do in practice.) > > -- > J. >
