How to solve "java.io.IOException: error=12, Cannot allocate memory" calling Runtime#exec()?
- by Andrea Francia
On my system I can't run a simple Java application that start a process. I don't know how to solve.
Could you give me some hints how to solve?
The program is:
[root@newton sisma-acquirer]# cat prova.java
import java.io.IOException;
public class prova {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("ls");
}
}
The result is:
[root@newton sisma-acquirer]# javac prova.java && java -cp . prova
Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "ls": java.io.IOException: error=12, Cannot allocate memory
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:474)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:610)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:448)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:345)
at prova.main(prova.java:6)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: error=12, Cannot allocate memory
at java.lang.UNIXProcess.<init>(UNIXProcess.java:164)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:81)
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:467)
... 4 more
Configuration of the system:
[root@newton sisma-acquirer]# java -version
java version "1.6.0_0"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.5) (fedora-18.b16.fc10-i386)
OpenJDK Client VM (build 14.0-b15, mixed mode)
[root@newton sisma-acquirer]# cat /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 10 (Cambridge)
EDIT: Solution
This solves my problem, I don't know exactly why:
echo 0 /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory
Up-votes for who is able to explain :)
Additional informations, top output:
top - 13:35:38 up 40 min, 2 users, load average: 0.43, 0.19, 0.12
Tasks: 129 total, 1 running, 128 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.5%us, 0.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 94.8%id, 3.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 1033456k total, 587672k used, 445784k free, 51672k buffers
Swap: 2031608k total, 0k used, 2031608k free, 188108k cached
Additional informations, free output:
[root@newton sisma-acquirer]# free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1033456 588548 444908 0 51704 188292
-/+ buffers/cache: 348552 684904
Swap: 2031608 0 2031608
