Out-of-memory on 32-bit systems when installing very large mods

[kartoFlane]

On the FTL forums, SleeperService came up with the idea to emulate random loot generation (as known in Diablo/Borderlands) by programmatically generating thousands on new weapon blueprints.

The resulting .append file is 45 MB in size (uncompressed), and SMM has some troubles with it on 32-bit systems -- the manager crashes, reporting java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space.
No such error appears on 64-bit systems, everything works perfectly there.

Attempting to brute-fix it by increasing max heap space available to the JVM doesn't help.

Link to the original post:
http://www.ftlgame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=17102&start=210#p70306

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