HashMap capacity

[s manoharan]

Hi ,

{can anyone suggest me what values of Initial capacity and Load Factor of a hashmap, can Hold a maximum capacity,

My application is very bulk it when 170000 alarms are processed out of mem heap occurs, i was not allowed to increase my server heap size , since it reaches certain limit, only thing i can do is to increase the Hashmap capacity and check once more with my application...

I have tried using default (16,.75f)

have tried with (151,.6f)

also please tell me how to calculate the capacity that a hashmap can hold using these Initial capacity and load factor.
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Thanks
regs
Mano

[David O'Meara]

I doubt it is related to the java.util.HashMap itself, more likely the data that is contained in the HashMap.
170k items is not an unreasonable size for a HashMap.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Welcome to JavaRanch.

There is nothing in the API about a maximum size, but I believe the actual size is always an exact power of 2. So your 170000 would actually be 524288. 2^18 is 262144, but 262144 * 0.6 < 170000, so it would double to 2^19 = 524288.

[David O'Meara]

Given that it is backed by an Array with max size 2^31-1, or 2^30 when limited to powers of two. 2^19 still leaves plenty of room.

[pooja jain]

Campbell Ritchie wrote:Welcome to JavaRanch.

There is nothing in the API about a maximum size, but I believe the actual size is always an exact power of 2. So your 170000 would actually be 524288. 2^18 is 262144, but 262144 * 0.6 < 170000, so it would double to 2^19 = 524288.

So your 170000 would actually be 524288. 2^18 is 262144, but 262144 * 0.6 < 170000, so it would double to 2^19 = 524288.



why did you multiply by 0.6?

Given that it is backed by an Array with max size 2^31-1, or 2^30 when limited to powers of two. 2^19 still leaves plenty of room.



i am not getting the calculations.

[Campbell Ritchie]

pooja jain wrote: . . . why did you multiply by 0.6? . . .

Because in the earlier post it said

(151,.6f)

There is the 0.6.