Memory requirements

[plus-]

Maybe some RAM requirements could be added to the documentation, I tried (a bit optimistically) to install that on my rasp pi just to get an OutOfMemoryError

[Suz]

The basic directions in the README also fail for me on my iMac. I get an out of memory error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

I increased the heap space, and it works. 1g was not enough, but 2g was, so my local server is up and running with:
java -Xmx2g -jar server-assembly-0.83.5.jar --hfile_basepath 2014-08-13-11-28-07.241237

The -Xmx2g option sets the maximum heap space to 2 gigs.

[nkadel-skyhook]

I can confirm that an AWS micro-instance with only 1 Gig of RAM had great difficulty even starting the service until I enabled some swap space. The heavy memory consumption seems to be at start-up, not in a lightweight activer server. But since many modern VM instaances have no swap space configured, it can crate a confusing difficulty.

[aggied]

The heavy memory consumption seems to be at start-up, not in a lightweight activer server.

@nkadel-skyhook can you comment on performance of a micro-instance after you got it running? How much swap space did you give it?

Maybe one of us should create a nice AMI...