to increase MaxPermSize memory in Java by command line

Question

Could you please explain me how to increase this PermSpace size. I am using Gate application and loading huge amount of data and large number of plugins and unfortunately after

Answer 1

From Gate's documentation

2.7.5 I got the error: Could not reserve enough space for object heap [#]

GATE doesn’t use the JAVA_OPTS variable. The default memory allocations are defined in the gate/build.xml file but you can override them by creating a file called build.properties in the same directory containing
runtime.start.memory=256m
runtime.max.memory=1048m

Check your gate/build.xml file and include the options cited in the other answers