Memory parameter settings

During an interactive installation, you are prompted for memory parameters for your system, and you will need to set your memory parameters differently depending upon your operating system.

These parameter values are written to the sandbox.cfg property file. After installation, you can edit these values as needed for performance and tuning.
These suggested minimum memory requirements are based on the products you are installing. Values can vary, depending on your environment.
Table 1. Suggested minimum memory parameter settings by operating system
Operating System Parameters
Solaris 10 on SPARC processor (64-bit AMD) -J-Xms256m -J-Xmx1408m -XX:MaxPermSize=768m
Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition x86-64 -J-Xms1024m -J-Xmx2048m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m
Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Standard Edition x86
IBM® AIX® 6.1 TL7 POWER System -J-Xms1024m -J-Xmx1536m
IBM AIX 7.1 POWER System
HP-UX 11i v3 on Itanium -J-Xms256m -J-Xmx1408m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 Update 8 Advanced Platform x86-64 -J-Xms1024m -J-Xmx1664m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 6 Update 3 POWER System
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3/AP 64-bit Xeon or AMD processor
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP2 x86-64 -J-Xms1024m -J-Xmx1664m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m
Note: For information about how the memory parameters relate to the ADDITIONAL_ANT_JAVA_TASK_ARGS and ADDITIONAL_ANT_COMPILER_TASK_ARGS properties, see the Sandbox.cfg installation properties.