Hi all

I get an error:
Exception in thread "Thread-2" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
after I run my program for a few seconds.

It's an application that just displays images (small ones) as a slide show. Very simple. Strangely it seems like it's doing something with RAM as my sound program starts to glitch when I run the processing program. (and only my program. All other processing sketches (i.e. without image loading) run fine).

I think it has to do with displaying images.

here is my loading code:

   for(int i = 0; i < imgNum; i++){
     if(i > 8) { // there is no image 000.bmp
       imgArray[i] = "0"+(i+1)+".jpg"; // and I'm adding 1 here
     }
     else {
       imgArray[i] = "00"+(i+1)+".jpg";
     }
   }

And I load them on setup, so there is no harddisk loading when the program runs. This takes around 6-7 seconds.

Then here is my image displaying code (inside draw())

   if(millis() > nextImgChangeMS) {
     nextImgChangeMS = millis() + (9000 + random(4000)) * speed;
     myPImage = pImgArray[(int)random(imgNum-1)];
     image(myPImage, 0, random(760));
   }

Extremely simple !!!

Where does the memory error come from? Is there not a garbage collection working here? It seems as all the old images stack up in RAM and fill it.

I searched the forum and Googled the problem and I found that this could be a solution:
run.options= -Xms128m -Xmx1024m

But it doesn't work.
Anyway, why should it require more ram? It loaded all the images fine and I'm only replacing an image into an image object on each draw.

(and my framerate is 12, so this shouldn't be a problem). CPU running on 24%.

If anyone could give a tip. I'd love to hear it.

Cheers

re: memory, there are two ways of changing the memory settings, you may have the wrong one:
http://processing.org/faq/bugs.html#memory