Could not reserve enough space for object heap

While restarting the red5 service on the server, If you get following error

——————BEGIN SESSION——————
root@server [~]# cd /usr/local/red5/dist
root@server [/usr/local/red5/dist]#./red5.sh &
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap
Could not create the Java virtual machine.
===============================

Then the best solution for this error is to use the following command. This command will increase the java heap size.

Quote:

root@server [/]#export _JAVA_OPTIONS=”-Xms20m -Xmx64m -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=20 -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=40 -XX:NewSize=10m -XX:MaxNewSize=10m -XX:SurvivorRatio=6 -XX:TargetSurvivorRatio=80 -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled -XX:+CMSPermGenSweepingEnabled”

Be sure that it ends with a ” if it is missing add it manually. Then restart the red5

Quote:

root@server [~]# cd /usr/local/red5/dist
root@server [/usr/local/red5/dist]#./red5.sh &

If you are facing same problem “Error occurred during initialization of VM” again and again on the server then the problem is with the ulimit setting. If it is a cpanel/WHM server then add the following code in the start of the /etc/profile file.

Quote:

#cPanel Added Limit Protections — BEGIN

#unlimit so we can run the whoami
ulimit -n 4096 -u 14335 -m unlimited -d unlimited -s 8192 -c 1000000 -v unlimited 2>/dev/null

LIMITUSER=$USER
if [ -e "/usr/bin/whoami" ]; then
LIMITUSER=`/usr/bin/whoami`
fi
if [ "$LIMITUSER" != "root" ]; then
ulimit -n 100 -u 20 -m 200000 -d 200000 -s 8192 -c 200000 -v 200000 2>/dev/null
else
ulimit -n 4096 -u 14335 -m unlimited -d unlimited -s 8192 -c 1000000 -v unlimited 2>/dev/null
fi
#cPanel Added Limit Protections — END

Save and exit.

Log out and login again (or start another session) for these changes to take effect.

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