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Out of Memory Problem

OK, I’ve been doing a little file editing and this afternoon I tried to open a directory of 209 MP3s that i’ve opened many times before and I got this error:


Out of memory, Jaikoz must be restarted, to increase the memory allocated to jaikoz modify its memory settings in the start up file and then restart

So…

I think went to the help section of the site and followed these instructions:
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3.5. Memory Management

Warning this section is for experienced users of Java only

The following parameters effect Jaikozes memory usage

-Xms64m -Xmx256m

The -Xms64m parameter specifies how much memory in megabytes (64) to allocate for storing data (such as the Audio Files Tagging Information) when you start Jaikoz, the -Xmx256 (256 megabytes) parameter sets the maximum memory allowed to be allocated.

If you are attempting to load many audio files (more than 10000) you may get a warning that memory is low, by increasing the value of -Xms you will be able to load larger amount of files if you require it. However trying to load too many files may place too high a CPU load on your computer could severely effect performance.

If you are running Jaikoz you need to modify the value of -Xms within the Info.plist

Go to where you installed Jaikoz
Show popup, and select ‘Show Package Contents’
Go into Contents/
Select popup on Info.plist and choose Open With …
Select Application/TextEdit
Find the line that says -Xms64m -Xms512m
Increase the value of Xms to the value you require

Go to where you installed Jaikoz Show popup, and select ‘Show Package Contents’ Go into Contents/Resources/Java in Jaikoz.lax to get the same effect. [/b][/i]

I walked through these instructions and up the values to:

-Xms64m -Xms1024m
then
-Xms64m -Xms2048m

It still has the same error.

Any ideas?

209 mp3s, there is no way that should require more than the average amount of memory, you should be able to comfortably load 10,000 mp3s with the defaults.

Please send me your jaikozuser0-0.log and jaikozdebug0-0.log and Ill see if there is something funny going on.