Could not reserve enough space for object heap

Question

I am getting the following exception repeatedly each time I try to run the program.

Error occurred during initialization of VM

Could not reserve e

Answer 1

This can also be caused by setting something too large on a 32-bit HotSpot vm, for example:

-Xms1536m -Xmx1536m

where this might/would work:

-Xms1336m -Xmx1336m