title: What is meaning when _JAVA_OPTIONS system variable value is given -Xmx512M?
body: <p>I am using windows 7 32 bit machine. I was building a cordova project on it and while building it was giving an error as</p>
  
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    <p>"Error occurred during initialization of VM".</p>
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  <p>This got solved when i defined system variable for <code>_JAVA_OPTIONS</code> and gave value as <code>-Xmx512M</code>. </p>
  
  <p>What extra information does this value provide to build that it allows build successfully.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>