Comments on: Increase Java JVM Heap Memory Size on OS X with Maven

By: Nikolaus

Nikolaus — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:10:51 +0000

Thanks you Chad for your help,

It seems that it is best to copy and paste the code into an editor like pico so that the encoding does not affect it. I used text edit on the first go, without success, so good luck and it seems to have worked great, thanks for the quick fix!

By: cs44

cs44 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:13:39 +0000

I’ve updated the original post – note that double quotes around “-Xms256M -Xmx512M” has been changed to single quotes as per this explanation of the meaning of quote type in BASH:

http://www.wiredrevolution.com/bash-programming/single-versus-double-quotes-in-bash

By: Nikolaus

Nikolaus — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:56:56 +0000

Hello, I have added the following to profile…
MAVEN_OPTS=”-Xms256M -Xmx512m”; export MAVEN_OPTS;

and when I open a new shell I just get…

-bash: -Xmx512m?: command not found

and I cannot find it in the set, do you know what may be happening?

cheers,

Nikolaus