How do I determine the amount of memory available?

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How do I determine the amount of memory available?

Try the Runtime class. It contains the methods totalMemory and freeMemory. totalMemory returns the total amount of memory available to the Virtual Machine.

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To change the amount of total heap memory available, you can specify so as an argument to Java:

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Author of answer: Joris Van den Bogaert

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