java out of memory error-heap space error

[elsanthosh]

dear sir,

i am developing swing application in netbeans 6.5 , its showing java out of memory error-heap space error ,how to increase java heap size in netbeans 6.5 ,can any body help me regarding this

thank u
santhosh babu

[r035198x]

Do you really have to increase that heap size? What if the problem lies withing your code and it's your code that you need to change?

[elsanthosh]

no i didnt increase heap size,my swing application consists of totally five tapped pane window ,in one tapped pane consists of a five text field and five buttons and my system hard disk is only 2 gb free space ,i am getting memory heap error while dragging the textfield in design window.how to slove this problem.

[elsanthosh]

no i didnt increase heap size,my swing application consists of totally five tapped pane window ,in one tapped pane consists of a five text field and five buttons and my system hard disk is only 2 gb free space ,i am getting memory heap error while dragging the textfield in design window.how to slove this problem.

[Tolls]

Isn't there some form of vm options file in the Netbeans directory?
Should be something there to let you assign more memory to it (-Xmx).

How big is your disk by the way?
Just curious because if it's more than about 20gb then I'd consider giving it a damn good clean out.

Also, do you have lots of other stuff running? Or not much RAM? Because if the VM is ending up using swap space on a disk that's nearly full I wouldn't be surprised if it hit an OOM.