On Nov 5, 2005, at 12:56, Sarah DJEBALI wrote:

> I know this may look a very naive question,
> but is is possible to increase the heap size?

The heap size increases automatically until your OS refuses to  
allocate more
memory to your program, then you get the "out of memory" message.

Your program is probably trying to build a data structure that is too  
big for
your computer.

-- Damien