Error occurred during initialization of VM Could not reserve enough space for object heap Could not create the Java virtual machine

Question

I am facing this problem since more than a month, here is what I see when I run java on command line:

$ java -Xmx1300m 
Error occurred during initialization          


        

Answer 1

Anyway, here is how to fix it:

Go to Start->Control Panel->System->Advanced(tab)->Environment Variables->System Variables->New:

Variable name: _JAVA_OPTIONS

Variable value: -Xmx512M

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