On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Arto Huusko wrote:

> 32 bit java does not start, because it complains that it cant't reserve
> enough space for object heap. This is usually because of too small data
> size limit, but I have it at 1G (and stack limit 4M).
> proc is mounted with -o linux, so that should not be a problem.

Ok, 32 bit java does start after all. Java just happens to think that this
laptop is a server class machine (which it is, if you think about the
specs), and it tries to reserve so much memory that 1G data size limit
is too small. Huge limit or -Xmx (or -client) switch to java makes it start.