Re: java error

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Brook Milligan 
<brook%biology.nmsu.edu@localhost> wrote:
> I am trying to run some java code on a box running NetBSD/i386
> v5.1_STABLE with sun-jre6-6.0.26 from pkgsrc.  However, I am getting
> the following error:
>
>     Error occurred during initialization of VM
>     java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread
>
> I am wondering if this is a result of too little memory, as might be
> implied by the exception, or if it could be a threading and/or java
> instability issue.  If the former, is there any way to discover what
> memory resources are needed and how does one tune that?  If the
> latter, should I be looking at different JREs and if so which?
>
> Any help is welcome.
>
> Thanks alot.
>
> Cheers,
> Brook
>

This looks more like a ulimit or system-level limit issue.