[josm-dev] Reasonable Minimum Memory requirements?

[Shaun McDonald]

It should be noted that the user can pass arguments to the java  
command to tell the JVM to use more memory. I do this all the time,  
quite often setting it to 2 or 3GB.

Shaun

On 4 Feb 2009, at 13:42, Stefan Breunig wrote:

> Ticket #2134  ( http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/2134 ) brought it
> to my attention that it may be a good idea to warn users if the JVM
> doesn't allow a reasonable amount of memory to be allocated. The
> implementation won't be so hard, just present a dialog with the
> appropriate command line args or maybe a wiki link and a "don't bother
> me again" checkbox.
> However: What's a reasonable limit? We surely don't want to warn every
> 2nd user but warning almost no one makes this pretty useless. I can
> post a debug build that prints the allocated memory to console if
> anyone would needs this.
>
>
> Greetings
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