why does Sun JVM have a hard max mem limit of 93meg on 2gig pc with no setting modified?

[Mistton]

have a several PCs running WinXP SP2 and W2k SP2 latest patches. all have AMD
or Intel chips with at least 1 gig ram.

have Java applet that at times requires ~250 meg of ram. on some boxes it
runs in less than 1 min on other takes over 30 mins.

on ones with 30 mins i notice mem never goes over 150 meg ram usage in task
manager even when box has 600 meg free. on boxes with 1 min time it goes to
250 megs and finishes.

i have tried all versions of Sun JVM from 1.4.2 to 1.6

i went to http://www.duckware.com/support/javahelp.html and noticed that on
boxes that are fast in the Java VM: Your Java VM reports the following
diagnostic information: section in max mem it said >128 meg or >256 etc

on slow boxes its says max memory: 93 meg.

there are no settings in the java plugin

can anybody please explain

 

[Oliver Wong]

have a several PCs running WinXP SP2 and W2k SP2 latest patches. all
have AMD
or Intel chips with at least 1 gig ram.

have Java applet that at times requires ~250 meg of ram. on some boxes
it
runs in less than 1 min on other takes over 30 mins.

on ones with 30 mins i notice mem never goes over 150 meg ram usage in
task
manager even when box has 600 meg free. on boxes with 1 min time it
goes to
250 megs and finishes.

i have tried all versions of Sun JVM from 1.4.2 to 1.6

i went to http://www.duckware.com/support/javahelp.html and noticed that
on
boxes that are fast in the Java VM: Your Java VM reports the following
diagnostic information: section in max mem it said >128 meg or >256 etc

on slow boxes its says max memory: 93 meg.

there are no settings in the java plugin

can anybody please explain

I'm assuming you're not interested in an explanation so much as a
solution.

When I google for "java applet max memory", I get:

Sun Java Plugin - How to Increase the Java Applet Memory Limit
Installing Java 1.5 along may fix your out of memory errors. ... Optional:
To view your current Java applet 'Max Mem', visit the Java Help web page
....
www.duckware.com/pmvr/howtoincreaseappletmemory.html

- Oliver

 

[Lew]

have a several PCs running WinXP SP2 and W2k SP2 latest patches. all have AMD
or Intel chips with at least 1 gig ram.
... on slow boxes its says max memory: 93 meg.

Please, please do not multi-post.

You posted the same question in clj.programmer as "why does Sun JVM have a
hard max mem limit of 93meg on 2gig pc with no setting modified?" and cl.java
as "why does Sun JVM have a hard max mem limit of 93meg on 2gig pc with no
setting done".