Executing Unix command through Java

[ilfil]

Hi,

I am trying to run some unix command through:
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("some unix command line");
I am running the code on Linux platform. However, I always got some errors. Here are the stack trace of them:

java.io.IOException: Cannot allocate memory
java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: Cannot allocate memory
at java.lang.UNIXProcess.<init>(UNIXProcess.java:148)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:65)
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:451)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:591)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:429)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:326)



Anybody has any idea why is this happening? Thanks.
Aulia

[esapersona]

The footprint of your process is too big to fit in memory again. Runtime.exec() calls fork() (a system call) which essentially copies your running process to start the new one.

Increase your swap, free some ram or give your java virtual machine less.

You can also hope that Sun fixes Runtime.exec() to use the vfork() system call sometime... Perhaps they have already in Java 6, I don't know...