Re: problem with java - debian

[Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl>]

Op 2014-04-11 om 11:38 schreef mohamad.mostafa@uni-ulm.de:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to install matlab under Linux and I am facing the
> following message
> 
> "Preparing installation files ...
> Installing ...
> Error occurred during initialization of VM
> Could not reserve enough space for object heap
> Could not create the Java virtual machine.
> Finished"
> 
> Running "apt-cache depends default-jdk" yields
> 
> default-jdk
> Depends: default-jre
> Depends: openjdk-6-jdk
> 
> Something is definitely wrong with java. I have been trying for long
> time to know what is wrong here, however I still could not solve the
> problem.

Being presistent is good.


> Could you help me.

My gut feeling is low memory.
Please provide the output of

   head /proc/meminfo


> Best regards
> Mohamad Mostafa


Groeten
Geert Stappers
-- 
$ head /proc/meminfo 
MemTotal:        3974060 kB
MemFree:          612584 kB
Buffers:           16020 kB
Cached:          1625604 kB
SwapCached:         6656 kB
Active:          2120584 kB
Inactive:         961612 kB
Active(anon):    1200052 kB
Inactive(anon):   513272 kB
Active(file):     920532 kB