On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:30:30AM -0400, Zachary Uram wrote: > Someone in IRC (I think it was Bob Tanner) mentioned that running the > poller application under OS X was eating up over 300MB of system > memory. Bob, take a look at OS X's Java VM for a hello world. Exclude cache. > I talked to Jeremy and he said this should not be happening > and that there should not be any memory leaks in his app. Good. > Here is a > screenshot he sent me (he is running MS Windows Vista I think) showing > only 19MB of memory being used: > > http://www.jesujuva.org/mem-usage.jpg Irrelevant. It is the trend that is important. Measure the usage at hourly intervals. Or if this was taken after some hours say so. I wouldn't be surprised to find it is a feature of the virtual machine in use. Zach, why don't you load up a Java VM yourself and test it out, that way we'd get the Linux data point. As another data point, the metaget program that I use takes a peak of 2Mb virtual memory, 644Kb physical memory, and is 13k on disk. The large difference between the on-disk size and the peak virtual memory size is caused by the very large C run time library. Jeremy, are you on the netrek-dev mailing list yet? -- James Cameron mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/
