[pylucene-dev] PyLucene JCC memory problem

[Andi Vajda]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, João Rodrigues wrote:

> Hello all, I don't know if this is a problem with my JCC or my PyLucene
> instalation, but here goes.
>
> I'm running the latest build of PyLucene. I works fine if I set my VM's heap
> size to a max of 800MB. However, any value greater than that just crashes
> the whole python system..
>
> I'm setting it like this:
>
> lucene.initVM(lucene.CLASSPATH, maxheap='1024m')

I tried it on Mac OS X 10.5 and I was able to increase maxheap until I got 
this error when I tried '32g' (which exceeds the VM's 32 bits for pointers).

   Invalid maximum heap size: -Xmx32g
   The specified size exceeds the maximum representable size.

Values such as '2g' work fine.

How about you tell us more about your environment such as OS, RAM size, HD 
size, max swap size, HD space left, VM version and vendor, Python version, 
PyLucene version, compiler vendor and version, etc... A gdb stacktrace of 
the crash would be helpful too.

Andi..