Unable to save game or write log due to out of memory

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I’m playing the Space Empires 4X Module, I’ve been playing a game a while and wanted to save it (so I could go to sleep), but VASSAL would not let me save… I tried ‘save game’ and ‘begin/end log’ to try save something. Both times I got ‘VASSAL out of memory: change heap size and restart’

I’d happily increase the heap size and restart… but it wouldn’t let me save my game first.

In the end I lost my game (yes, I should have been saving more often) - failure to save seems a issue to me.

Is there a way to force a save… is this an issue other people have. Or is it just the Space Empires module?

Thanks for any help.

I’m running
VASSAL 3.2.8
Se4x-close-encounters-2-1-final

java version “1.6.0_20”
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.9.9) (6b20-1.9.9-0ubuntu1~10.04.2)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 19.0-b09, mixed mode)

Linux 2.6.32-34-generic #77-Ubuntu SMP Tue Sep 13 19:39:17 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

4Gb Memory
Unknown graphics card (sorry)

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Thus spake mintroll:

I’m playing the Space Empires 4X Module, I’ve been playing a game a
while and wanted to save it (so I could go to sleep), but VASSAL would
not let me save… I tried ‘save game’ and ‘begin/end log’ to try save
something. Both times I got ‘VASSAL out of memory: change heap size and
restart’

I’d happily increase the heap size and restart… but it wouldn’t let me
save my game first.

In the end I lost my game (yes, I should have been saving more often) -
failure to save seems a issue to me.

Is there a way to force a save… is this an issue other people have. Or
is it just the Space Empires module?

the problem is that VASSAL ran out of memory while saving. If you
tried to “force” a save somehow, you’d have the same problem.

You need to increase your max heap in the module preferences.

–
J.