example of how to set java max heap size dynamically

If your command runs a java program, increase the runtime memory will probably fix 'out of memory' error. The example shows how to dynamically calculate the max heap size on linux based docker images

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```

#
# find amount of free memory and unused swap
#
free --total --bytes | grep Total | tee free.out
echo
# Total: 1653340639232 435497533440 59898118144

# looks like tab is replace with 4 space. Is the a mac terminal thing?
# replace all white space to make sparcing portabl
sed -e 's/\s\+/,/g' free.out | tee sed.out
echo
# Total:,1653340639232,435497533440,59898118144

# parse out last numeric value
freeBytes=`cut -d , -f 4 sed.out`
printf "freeBytes: $freeBytes \n"
#59898118144

# make sure we have multiple of 1024 bytes

quotient=$(expr $freeBytes / 1024)
printf "quotient: $quotient \n"
# 58494256

# TODO: make sure we have more than 2 mb

MAX_HEAP=`echo "$quotient"K`
printf "MAX_HEAP: $MAX_HEAP \n"

java \
-Xmx"$MAX_HEAP" \
-XshowSettings:vm \
-jar /usr/gitc/picard.jar SamToFastq \

```