This repository contains some examples about how to possibly tackle certain problems when dealing with resource limits when using Java. Unless specified otherwise, all examples (when executed) should have the JVM arguments -Xms and -Xmx set to the same value.

File: com.thetinkeringtypist.examples.MaximalListSize.java

This is a short test exploring dynamic memory allocation limits with java collections. I was interested in exploring how large a list could be allocated and filled. In a distributed environment where the same component might be running in duplicate/triplicate/etc. on different hardware (complete with different memory limits), I was interested to see if collections could be allocated dynamically without crashing based on arbitrary numbers.

A proper solution to this problem is to do some actual design and engineering work to come up with a plan for dealing with a large collection of objects. However, for those more interested in how many objects they can actually store in memory during execution, this applies.