[nylug-talk] Free -m shows 300MB usage after upgrade to 1GB.

[Lee Revell]

On Jan 2, 2008 12:33 PM, sixtyfourbeets <sixtyfourbeets at gmail.com> wrote:
> So why does Java suck up all that memory and then dips into the swap space?
>
> I'm basing this on observing free -m output after launching the
> application in question
> and requesting data.  Top would show Java using 75% memory.
>
> What irritates me is that the freeze ups and this apperent excessive
> memory usage
> occured suddenly and continued to occur until I upgraded to 1GB.
> Whereas before the application was slow with the 512MB.

Because Java sucks (the implementations anyway, in theory it's a good design)?

Really, I would ask the vendor of the app to help analyze this.

Lee