8u171 32 bit on Win 7 SP1 PC with 8GB RAM failed intermittently when launching a webstart application.

java.io.IOException: Native allocation failed
        at com.sun.java.util.jar.pack.NativeUnpack.start(Native Method)
        at com.sun.java.util.jar.pack.NativeUnpack.run(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.java.util.jar.pack.NativeUnpack.run(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.java.util.jar.pack.UnpackerImpl.unpack(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.java.util.jar.pack.UnpackerImpl.unpack(Unknown Source)

The application has no issue when run with 64bit equivalent java version.