Java plugin memory size

To increase the memory size available to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) plugin for the Specview applet, do the following:

Windows:

Start the Java Plug-in control panel. You can check

http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.3/docs/controlpanel.html

Once the ControlPanel is open, under Advanced, type in the Java Runtime Parameters field, e.g.:

-Xmx1000M

to increase to 1 Gb the available memory size.

Unix:

If your are under Unix, and you are not sure what is the JVM your browser is using, you can check the following steps.

Under the user home directory, there should be a directory:

.mozilla

.netscape

??

Browsing the file plugin-list or pluginreg.dat under the corresponding directory, you can know the exact JVM used by your browser. Under .netscape:

PluginList Version 1

/usr/j2se/jre/plugin/sparc//ns4/javaplugin.so 1033493714

application/x-java-apple

and under .mozilla:

0:application/pdf:Portable Document Format:pdf:$

/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2_02/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/libjavaplugin_oji.so:$

:$

So in the first case, you can change to directory /usr/j2se/jre/bin; in the second case, to directory /usr/local/j2sdk1.4.2_02/jre/bin and then execute:

./ControlPanel

Once the ControlPanel is open, under Advanced, type on the Java Runtime Parameters field, e.g.:

-Xmx1000M

to increase to 1 Gb the available memory size.

(courtesy of Jesus J. Salgado, ESAC)