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change maximum memory for coldfusion 8

First, it might be good for you to get the total amount of free memory on your system (using -m will present the information in MB):

Looks like I have about 1754 MB free.

Edit the following file:

/opt/jrun4/bin/jvm.config

then change the following line from:

-XX:MaxPermSize=512m

to something higher, like:

-XX:MaxPermSize=768m

Installing Ubuntu now…

I really like the Ubuntu operating system and the team that is making it. I hope to make it my personal development computer once I find a nice laptop to run it on.

Installing Ubunto 9.10 on VMWare

Full Screen Terminal Screen shot in Ubuntu while installing Ruby on Rails