[Mesquitelist] Java Heap Space out of memory

[Wayne Maddison]

Thanks; we now have two reports of memory problems with the bucket. 
We suspect the bucket leaks.

On the list to fix.

Wayne


At 8:46 AM +1000 19.8.2008, Buz Wilson wrote:
>I had thought about increasing the heap size as a work-around - thanks
>for the suggestion. My point, which I didn't describe clearly
>(sorry...), was that I had been doing the same thing (filling cells with
>a particular character state using the bucket tool) in the previous
>version (2.0), and did not have this heap memory error & crash, using
>the same data and the same startup defaults. I am also using the same
>JRE installation. I'm building a large matrix, so not being able to use
>the bucket tool seems somewhat retrogressive.  So something seems to
>have changed in the current Mesquite version that causes the problem --
>or  maybe it was just because I was doing this on Monday...
>
>best wishes
>
>Buz
>
>
>George D.F. (Buz) Wilson
>Australian Museum (Marine Invertebrates)
>6 College Street, Sydney 2010 Australia
>tel: +612 9320 6287
>fax: +612 9320 6042
>email: buz.wilson at austmus.gov.au (Museum)
>email2: buz at optusnet.com.au (home)
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kim van der Linde [mailto:kim at kimvdlinde.com]
>Sent: Monday, 18 August 2008 4:23 PM
>To: Buz Wilson; mesquitelist at mesquiteproject.org
>Subject: Re: [Mesquitelist] Java Heap Space out of memory
>
>java is reserving relative small amount of memory (heap size), but you
>can increase it by using the following line:
>
>"C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.4.2_17\bin\java.exe" -Xms1024m -Xmx1024m
>mesquite.Mesquite
>
>Depending on the version of java you are using, you can go up a bit
>more. If you have a 64-bit machine, you can go up substantially more.
>
>I use the above line in my shortcut, with "Start in" line: "C:\Program
>Files\Mesquite"
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