If you're doing GP, out of memory errors will be common: GP  
individuals bloat unless you use one of many techniques to keep them  
under control.

In this case, you need to increase the heap size.  Here we increase  
it to 500M:
	java -Xmx500M ec.Evolve ...

If you're doing something *other* than GP, sure, it could be a leak  
of some sort; though ECJ hasn't historically had many leaks -- hash  
table overfills etc ...

On Jun 13, 2006, at 6:28 AM, Alberto Cuesta wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm running Genetic Programming experiments, and I get easily this  
> error:
>
> Exception in thread "EvolutionAgent.2508451.8329630"  
> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
>
> I think that it's that the population genotypes grow and exceed  
> over a certain memory limit assigned to the JVM, but I could be  
> wrong and have a memory leak somewhere. Has anyone some directions  
> to investigate or solve this?
>
> Thanks,
> Alberto