Why cannot I allocate more than -Xmx700M

[Kees Jan Koster]

Dear Sharkie,

> I think I was 1 GIG of physical ram. I am getting service in for my  
> machine now.

Strange. I have a box with 768MB RAM and it will happily allocate 1GB  
for a JVM. That is, I can run "Hello World" -Xmx1G and -Xmx1000M just  
fine.

This is using the native JVM. What version are you using?

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