Increasing Java Memory - Terminating Early

Hi

I am having termination problems also. I am trying to use the XML Sitemap gernerator on quite a large website. Its terminating about 160 URLS as it just gets to the end and gives up.

I would like to try upping the Memoery Settings discussed in these posts. But where do i find it please?

My PC is Win XP, 1gb RAM.

Any guidence would be greatly welcome.

PS. thanks ever so much for creating these very user frienld tools.

Thanks

Slic

Hey Slick, welcome to the Forum!

To increase the memory Java uses and the Webmaster Tool, simply navigate to the control panel and click on the Java Icon. Then, inside the Java Control Panel, click on the Java Tab, Java Applet Runtime Settings, View and then in the Java Runtime Parameters cell, enter '-Xmx256m' for each product listed.

You can take it a step further when building a sitemap (if you're still having problems) and enter '-Xmx512m' or down one to '-Xmx128m'

With 250, your should be able to spider 100,000 pages without any problems.

Let me know if that works for you! If you continue to have problems, send me your URL and I'll take a look.

Regards,

Jim.

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Hi Jim

Thanks for the info. I currently have the my website being crawled as it has about 3000 links on it.

My website is myfancydress.com

Thanks for your propmt reply also...

Regards

Slick

Sounds like you are running it now, so I'll not do anything and wait for your results.

Let me know how it went. If it didn't finish, let me know what your three memory settings are under the System tab inside the webmaster tool (Free, Total and Max).

If it does not complete, do me a favor and try to browse your website right after it stops and let me know the results as well.

Thanks Slick,

Jim.

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Jim

I tweaked it a couple of times and had to let it run whilst testing. hence my delay in repling. But 256 has worked a treat. It also seem to crawl quit a bit faster.

Thanks Again.

Slick

We aim to please

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Hi Jim

Sorry to re-awaken an old post but I have recently had a new PC. I have been trying to modify the amount of memory allocated to java as per your instructions below that you gave me that got the sitemapper working. When i had my previous PC your tweak worked fine. The new PC however is not quite working. I set the memory as per your post below to " -Xmx512m ".

When i return to load the sitemapper i am getting an error saying:

"The Java Runtime Envionment cannont be loaded"

and also i have seen the message:

"Several Java Virtual macheines running the same process caused an error"

Do you have any idea what the problem could be please? This new PC has 2gb of ram... not sure if you need to know that.

Thanks

Simon

Hello Simon,

Have you tried a larger value? What happens when you don't enter anything at all?

Regards,

Jim.

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Hi Jim

I have tried increasing the Java Memory to both -Xmx1024m and -Xmx2048m.

When i load the site map generator i just get an error saying :

"Several Java Virtual macheines running the same process caused an error"

I've had this happen before after changing the memory settings and not a clue what the problem is. I think my fix was to put it back the way it was, (perhaps blank it out). Then I rebooted my computer and entered setting starting from 512 and moving up from there in 128 increments.

Let me know if that helps.

Jim.

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