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Cygwin JVM error while trying to launch Nutch Win-7

I am trying to launch apache-nutch from win, so used cygwin but whenever I run the command 

bin/crawl urls -dir crawl -depth 3 -topN 5

it throws the error-

Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

I already changed the JAVA_HEAP_MAX in bin\nutch with higher value and tried but nothing worked.

Solution

  • Ok I realized that 

    Could not reserve enough space for object heap

    does mean that more memory requirement is the trouble as some windows applications were pulling more memory , so I decrease the memory and problem solved.