Re: Problems running ImageJ on 64x WinXP with max mem set to 6 GB

Posted by Gabriel Landini on Jun 02, 2008; 5:42pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Problems-running-ImageJ-on-64x-WinXP-with-max-mem-set-to-6-GB-tp3696088p3696090.html

On Monday 02 June 2008, Shawn Mikula wrote:
> hello ImageJ community,
> this email may be better addressed to a Java mailing list, but hopefully
> someone here can help me out...  To use ImageJ with images of several GB's
> in size, I have tried installing the 64x JRE (v1.6) on a 64x WinXP system
> with 16 GB RAM, but when I use ImageJ with Xmx option set to 6 GB, I am
> receiving a "Could not create the Java virtual machine" error and early
> termination of ImageJ.  Has anyone used ImageJ on 64x WinXP systems
> successfully using multi-GB size images?  Does anyone have any ideas why
> Java is not able to create the Java virtual machine?

This question has been asked many times and there is a number of FAQs with
suggestion in the wiki at the Tudor site.

Cheers,

G.