java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

Question

I am getting the following error on execution of a multi-threading program

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

The above error occu

Answer 1

1. Local variables are located on the stack. Heap space is occupied by objects.

2. You can use the -Xmx option.

3. Basically heap space is used up everytime you allocate a new object with new and freed some time after the object is no longer referenced. So make sure that you don't keep references to objects that you no longer need.