New to Java

Hello.

I am running Java JRE 1.6 on Ubuntu 7.10. I like how it takes advantage of the 64 bit processor and OS. I run a cpu-intensive application on it almost exclusively. It can, and has, run for days at a time - so I like to pretty much leave it alone so it can complete sometime this century.

However, I have noticed that it uses only 26.4 % of the available memory. Since the memory has absolutely nothing else to do would it be possible to start java with much more memory?

(I saw a few pages on google that mentioned using the JAVA Statup something-or-other but I am using a version of the JRE that stated when I downloaded it that it does not yet have either the browser plugin nor the JAVA startup-something or other. So i guess it would have to be a command line thing)

Thanks in advance.