Obtaining memory available to JVM at runtime

Question

I\'m trying to sort a bunch of data such that that the size of data input to the program can be larger than the memory available to the JVM, and handling that requires exter

Answer 1

You can use the Runtime class to get the amount of memory available.

Runtime r = Runtime.getRuntime();
System.out.println(r.totalMemory());

There are various other memory details you can get from the Runtime object - see Runtime class.