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In NetBeans Japanese community mailing list, I got several reports (at least 3 users) that NetBeans 7.0 Beta could not start by "JVM creation failed". The first startup - just after installation, it succeeded. However, after closing NetBeans once, NetBeans no longer start by the error. They used the same machine for NetBeans 6.9 and NetBeans 7.0. NetBeans 6.9 can start. But NetBeans 7.0 can not with the default settings. One reporter kindly compared netbeans.conf - he says -J-XX:MaxPermSize= part is different from 6.9 and it causes the error. When he used 6.9's value, it works on NetBeans 7.0. 6.9: netbeans_default_options="-J-client -J-Xss2m -J-Xms32m -J-XX:PermSize=32m -J-XX:MaxPermSize=200m -J-Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true -J-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true -J-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true" NetBeans Dev 201102030000: netbeans_default_options="-J-client -J-Xss2m -J-Xms32m -J-XX:PermSize=32m -J-XX:MaxPermSize=384m -J-Dnetbeans.logger.console=true -J-ea -J-Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=true -J-Dapple.awt.graphics.UseQuartz=true -J-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true" I understand these are default values and usually users do not need to modify it for their machines. Any clue? Why it's different between 6.9 and 7.0?
Environment: Product Version = NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 201102030000) (#87dcb2d86d14) Operating System = Windows XP version 5.1 running on x86 Java; VM; Vendor = 1.6.0_23; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 19.0-b09; Sun Microsystems Inc. Runtime = Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.6.0_23-b05 Java Home = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_23\jre System Locale; Encoding = ja_JP (nb); MS932
The increase of -J-XX:MaxPermSize from 200m to 384m was introduced when fixing issue 190336. It seems that in some cases it is not possible to allocate the increased amount of java process memory in the virtual address space. Can you tell how much RAM these users have and if they are on 32-bit or 64-bit Java? I guess we will need to adjust -J-XX:MaxPermSize based on user's RAM, e.g. 256m for <=2gb and 384 only for >2gb.
(In reply to comment #2) > I guess we will need to adjust -J-XX:MaxPermSize based on user's RAM, e.g. 256m > for <=2gb and 384 only for >2gb. Hold on Tonda, it's too risky to do such change in this period of release cycle. If we will do so, QE needs to retest all OSes and it will take us 4-6 weeks. We can do : - mention this in Release Notes for 7.0 + FAQ - integrate change at the beginning of 7.0.1, when we plan to re-test it once again
Tondo, will you start waiver process, to get this out of dashboard? I've added comment so it won't be forgotten once release notes will be created.
I have the same problem with my company RCP application based on 6.9.1 . It happens after I have updated some modules. I have to restart it 2 or three times to see it working. I am Italian but I have a Windows Vista in Japanese
Added to RNs (http://nbstaging.czech/community/releases/70/relnotes.html#known_issues-core), please review.
Note is ok IMO, thanks. (In reply to comment #6) > Added to RNs > (http://nbstaging.czech/community/releases/70/relnotes.html#known_issues-core), > please review.
Just for information: I have this issue on NetBeans 7.0 RC1 running on Window 7 x64 using 32bit Java and 4 GB Ram. Using -J-Xmx256m or -J-Xmx512m as discussed in bug 183941 worked. Editing netbeans.conf setting -J-XX:MaxPermSize=200m didn't help for me!
I had the same problem with a new NetBeans 7.0 installation on a WinXP x86 32Bit, jdk 1.6.0_24-b07, with 6.9.1 already installed, and working fine. Just adding "-J-Xmx256m" to the netbeans_default_options, and thus not releying on the default value solved the problem. Cheers, Chris
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 183941 ***