Running out of memory - is there a hole in my code?

Question

public class Cover extends JPanel {
    private static int WIDTH = 180;
    private static int HEIGHT = 180;
    private static Thread resizer;
    private static BlockingQueue <Cover> covers = new ArrayBlockingQueue <Cover> (100);
    static {
        ImageIO.setUseCache(false);
        new Thread(new Resizer(), "Cover Resizer").start();
    private static class Resizer implements Runnable {
        public void run() {
            while (true) {
                try {
                    Cover cover = covers.take();
                    BufferedImage temp = ImageIO.read(cover.file);
                    int originalWidth = temp.getWidth();
                    int originalHeight = temp.getHeight();
                    Image rescaled = temp.getScaledInstance(WIDTH, HEIGHT, Image.SCALE_AREA_AVERAGING);
                    temp = new BufferedImage(WIDTH, HEIGHT, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
                    Graphics2D graphics = temp.createGraphics();
                    graphics.drawImage(rescaled, 0, 0, null);
                    graphics.dispose();
                    cover.image = temp;
                } catch (Exception exception) {
                    System.out.println(exception);
    private File file;
    private Image image;
    public Cover() {
        this.file = null;
    public Cover(File file) {
        setFile(file);
    public void setFile(File file) {
        this.file = file;
        covers.offer(this);
    public Image getImage() {
        if (image != null)
            return image;
        else if (file != null)
            return Images.getImage("loading");
        else
            return Images.getImage("none");
    protected void paintComponent(Graphics graphics) {
        super.paintComponent(graphics);
        graphics.drawImage(getImage(), 0, 0, null);
        graphics.dispose();
}So basically I'm writing a music database of sorts. One of the things its gotta be able to do is display covers. I thought i was being all clever when i wrote the above cover class so that it would resize the images in on a seperate thread in the background without stalling the user interface.
It's resizeing fairly large images (<300 kb jpegs) and it does the first couple very quickly... then it stops for a long time... then it tells me its out of memory. I know its not any cover in perticular because i changed the order in the process of my bug testing.
So basically my question is this... why is it bombing out? and what can i do about it? (I've read about changing the available memory through command line switch, and i tried that and it didn't seem to do anything).
Not sure if it matters... but I'm running fedora core 4 on a 2.4 ghz with 256 ram and a radeon 9200 with java 1.5 update 6.
thanks in advance for any assistance.

Answer 1

Yup, OB is correct but after changing locations go to the menu bar and go; file>library>organize library. It will then give you a choice, choose consolidate library. This will ensure all of your music is together and located in the same place. Whenever you open up iTunes it will now load from your new library location.
          *(You can also hold option key when launching iTunes and it will give you the option to choose which library you would like to use.)
Good Luck,
Mike