meaning of error message

Hi,

Does anyone know what this means:

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space (failed to
allocate 1701671008
bytes)

Does it mean it was trying to allocate a 1.7GB object?!??

Context:  After running for several days, and while using
700M out of an
allocated 2000M for heap, it got an out-of-memory exception.
 This is Java
build 1.5.0_06-b05.


Does anyone know where I can find the exact meaning of an
exception from
the JVM?  I tried Sun's site but with no luck.

Thanks,
Mike
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> well as far as i understand it usually would happen
when the application
> runs out of RAM....and thats a memory location address
(1701671008) and
> not indicative of the size of memory the app needs

Why does it say "1701671008 bytes" then?

>
> Mike New <mikeNOOZOO.COM> wrote:  Hi,
>
> Does anyone know what this means:
>
> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space (failed to
allocate 1701671008
> bytes)
>
> Does it mean it was trying to allocate a 1.7GB
object?!??
>
> Context: After running for several days, and while
using 700M out of an
> allocated 2000M for heap, it got an out-of-memory
exception. This is Java
> build 1.5.0_06-b05.
>
>
> Does anyone know where I can find the exact meaning of
an exception from
> the JVM? I tried Sun's site but with no luck.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
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