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[Peter Schober]

* M A Young <m.a.young at durham.ac.uk> [2015-10-12 19:39]:
> If you are having problems downloading the metadata in your IdP, one thing 
> to check is how much memory you are allowing java to use. Our IdP servers 
> were having problems updating the metadata, and it turned out the metadata 
> had got too large and the previously recommended 512M was no longer 
> enough - I belive 1024M is now the recommended java size in such cases.

While that's all true (and even more memory won't hurt) the OP failed
to download the metadata even with curl, a command line tool not using
the JVM. So in this case it cannot have anything to do with Java.
-peter