Java OutOfMemoryError strange behaviour

Posted by Evgeniy Dorofeev on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Evgeniy Dorofeev
Published on 2012-11-23T14:24:17Z Indexed on 2012/11/23 17:05 UTC
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Assuming we have a max memory of 256M, why does this code work:

public static void main(String... args) {
  for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++)
  {
      byte[] a1 = new byte[150000000];
  }
  byte[] a2 = new byte[150000000];
}

but this one throw an OOME?

public static void main(String... args) {
  //for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++)
  {
      byte[] a1 = new byte[150000000];
  }
  byte[] a2 = new byte[150000000];
}

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