Name: krT82822 Date: 01/30/2000


orig user synopsis: "The ceiling of maximum available heap at SDK v1.3 RC1 becomes lower than v1.3be"

java version "1.3.0rc1"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.0rc1-T)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.0rc1-S, mixed mode)

The ceiling of maximum available heap at SDK v1.3 RC1 becomes lower than
v1.3beta

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In SDK v1.3 RA (build 1.3.0-I),
the max of array size can be up to 1259761474 bytes.

G:\java\memory>java -mx1262485504 LargeArrayTest6
1259761474
should be 123: 123

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But in SDK v1.3 RC1 (build 1.3.0rc1-T)
the same size of heap memory can not get.

E:\java\memory>java -mx1262485504 LargeArrayTest6
1259761474
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
        <<no stack trace available>>

It is down-grading.

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  The test procedure is the same as the case of Bug ID 4298569

  The procedure is :
java -mx1262485504 LargeArrayTest6

//------------- LargeArrayTest6.java -------------
class LargeArrayTest6 {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      byte[] array;
      int size = 1259761474; //<<-- modify the size here
      System.out.println( size );

      array = new byte[size];
      array[size-1] = 123;
      System.out.println("should be 123: " + array[size-1]);

   }
}
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30 Jan 2000 eval1127@eng -- in reply to our asking whether this report said anything new beyond the previous bug (othet than that RC1 has a bigger "footprint"
than beta), user noted:

RC1 takes a bigger "footprint".
In RC1, we can get less heap memory.


(Review ID: 100494)
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