In the life of a Java developer every now and then you’ll have one of your apps run out of memory. While this is usually due to poor coding (not closing resources, or managing large files) it helps to know exactly what the defaults are for your system. I had just this need today so went out looking for an answer.
What I found that was the most helpful was this page, but for quick reference here’s how to do it on Windows…
c:\>java -XX:+PrintFlagsFinal -version | findstr /i "HeapSize PermSize ThreadStackSize"
uintx InitialHeapSize := 266634176 {product}
uintx MaxHeapSize := 4267704320 {product}
uintx PermSize = 21757952 {pd product}
uintx MaxPermSize = 85983232 {pd product}
intx ThreadStackSize = 0 {pd product}
java version "1.7.0_40"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_40-b43)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.0-b56, mixed mode)Note that the values returned are in bytes so throw them into google to convert them into something useful 🙂
Please remember to subscribe to the newsletter to stay up to date!For any of my friends who enjoy a car mystery… This is the 2006 Honda Odyssey. Yesterday around 1pm Mary got rear-ended but all seemed to be ok. It’s also colder than sin.
Today, after having kids go in and out of various doors without indecent she went to pick Al up from school. After getting in the van and putting it into reverse or drive the door ajar alarm (constant buzz) would sound until the car was put in park or neutral. It did this until she got home (drove home with the buzz) and left it for me.
When I went to look at it I noticed the same behavior and also noted that none of the door ajar dashboard lights were on. After fiddling with some things (mostly trying to diagnose a pattern), I discovered that if you put the rear doors into manual mode via the driver side dashboard switch the sound went away. Score 1 for the good guys.
Unfortunately, I knew someone wouldn’t consider that a permanent fix so I went looking for another solution. What I found online suggested removing the drivers side #7 fuse labeled “back up”, so I gave that a shot. When you remove that fuse the beeping for doors open/key in the ignition stops and the rear power doors do not work at all. After waiting the prescribed 30-60 seconds I replaced the fuse and the constant buzz in drive/reverse is no longer there, but now the passenger side sliding door does not open automatically (just manually).
So I and apparently Google appear to be out of ideas. That and I’m tired. If any of you can help me w/ a solution that doesn’t require a trip to the mechanic there’s many beers or other beverages of choice in your future.
Please remember to subscribe to the newsletter to stay up to date!Ever want to pass in a command line argument to an alias? You would think you could just do it with $1, but actually you have to create a function and then call that function. So, for instance if you want to pass a portion of a log file name, you could set your alias like this…
alias catlog='function _catIt() { cat /var/logs/$1.log; };_catIt'then, when you want to see the XX00D log, you just call your alias like so…
catlog XX00DIf you’re using AutoHotKey (and I would recommend that you do), here’s a handy script for remapping the caps lock to show the app launcher (which is convenient if you’ve gotten used to a Chromebook)
SetCapsLockState, AlwaysOff
Capslock::Run, chrome.exe --show-app-listEver need to find out what’s using the most space on your Linux box? There are a couple commands that will help make things easier…
To find out how much space you have use:
df -h .Which will give you output like so…
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda 20G 15G 4.2G 79% /To list out the directories using the most space, use this handy command…
sudo du /usr/local | sort -n… where /usr/local is the directory you want info for (you can also just start from root: /)
Please remember to subscribe to the newsletter to stay up to date!Wow. Just the other day I received an updated report on what my 2012 birthday campaign helped achieve and I have to say I’m absolutely floored. The $1001 we raised helped over 860 people!
Let me say that again, you helped over 860 people.
There’s a reason I’ve always been a big fan of charity:water and these types of results just help to reinforce that belief. Take a look at the projects here: Project Page
Wow. Just wow. And THANK YOU!!!
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