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Increase Heap Size in Java

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Sun, 05/10/2008 - 15:43 — Avi

The Java heap size can be increased using the following runtime parameters:

java -Xms<initial heap size> -Xmx<maximum heap size>

Defaults are: -Xms32m -Xmx128m

For example, edit /usr/bin/azureus and add -Xms128m -Xmx256m as java parameters in the last line, if you are a heavy torrent user.

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