Increasing java heap space with command line argument

If you find that your Java application is running our of heap space and you don’t have a memory leak, you can give the JMV more memory. This is very simple to do by starting your java application with the following argument.

java -Xmx6g myprogram

You have three options for increasing size

-Xms<size>        set initial Java heap size
-Xmx<size>        set maximum Java heap size
-Xss<size>        set java thread stack size

java -Xms16m -Xmx64m ClassName