JOSM should have by default 512 MB or more

[baditaflorin]

With the new Java7 switch, if i open BING, Mapbox and Mapnik Layer, and i download one or 2 layers of data to work with, i get really fast JOSM is out of memory, and if i try to sae a file, it will sometimes save it partially, leading to a corrupt file

What steps will reproduce the problem?

What is the expected result?

What happens instead?

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Repository Root: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn
Build-Date: 2014-05-26 07:29:16
Last Changed Author: akks
Revision: 7182
Repository UUID: 0c6e7542-c601-0410-84e7-c038aed88b3b
URL: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk
Last Changed Date: 2014-05-26 09:22:25 +0200 (Mon, 26 May 2014)
Last Changed Rev: 7182

Identification: JOSM/1.5 (7182 en) Windows 7 64-Bit
Memory Usage: 247 MB / 247 MB (6 MB allocated, but free)
Java version: 1.7.0_55, Oracle Corporation, Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
VM arguments: [-Djava.security.policy=file:C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\lib\security\javaws.policy, -DtrustProxy=true, -Xverify:remote, -Djnlpx.home=<java.home>\bin, -Djnlpx.origFilenameArg=C:\Users\florin\AppData\LocalLow\Sun\Java\Deployment\cache\6.0\56\1ee8cfb8-6679a95c, -Djnlpx.remove=false, -Dsun.awt.warmup=true, -Xbootclasspath/a:C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\lib\javaws.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\lib\deploy.jar;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\lib\plugin.jar, -Djava.util.Arrays.useLegacyMergeSort=true, -Djnlpx.splashport=52721, -Djnlp.application.href=https://josm.openstreetmap.de/download/josm.jnlp, -Djnlpx.jvm=<java.home>\bin\javaw.exe, -Djnlpx.vmargs=-Djava.util.Arrays.useLegacyMergeSort=true -Djnlp.application.href=https://josm.openstreetmap.de/download/josm.jnlp]
Dataset consistency test: No problems found

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Plugin: conflation (0.1.7)
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Plugin: jts (30416)
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Plugin: merge-overlap (30416)
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[bastiK]

This is not possible as webstart is also used on older machines. You can download the jar file and add an option at start: java -Xmx500m -jar josm.jar

[Klumbumbus]

Or you use the .jnlp file and change in a text editor the line

<j2se version="1.6+"/>

to

<j2se version="1.6+" initial-heap-size="256m" max-heap-size="768m"/>

(or other values for initial-heap-size and max-heap-size)

[anonymous]

I suggest to provide some alternative download links on josm.openstreetmap.de, which already include larger values for max-heap-size (like 1GB, 2GB, ..). This way, the original 512MB is retained, while it allows for larger heap sizes without any manual file fiddling.

Rationale: Asking a user to download .jnlp and manually editing the file may be too much for some users, see:

​https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=623954#p623954

[skyper]

Did not try it with webstart but running .jar-files on Linux the java environment is providing more memory if the system has plenty. So, this might be better fixed within java by a smarter default setting depending on the available memory and not by every executable itself.

[anonymous]

@skypet: setting the max heap size in the jnlp file (a text file!) works on any os, not just Linux. It is just a matter of providing a suitable jnlp file according to what a user wants to run.

[Don-vip]

Closed as duplicate of #20510.