How to increase the size of the JVM heap in EAP ?
Issue
- Unable to increase the size of the JVM heap.
- While setting JVM's
Xmxto 32 GB or more , there's an error appearing in the log :
Starting jboss-as: JVMJ9GC028E Option too large: '-Xmx'
JVMJ9VM015W Initialization error for library j9gc26(2): Failed to initialize
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.
- While running
java-1.5.0-ibm-1.5.0.11.2-1jpp.1.el5underRed Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 x86_64 kernel, can not setXmxto much more than 3750mb. Error is as follows:
JVMJ9GC028E Option too large: '-Xmx4096m'
JVMJ9VM015W Initialization error for library j9gc23(2): Failed to initialize; unable to parse command line
Environment
- Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
- 5.x
- 6.1.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- 5.x
- 6.x
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