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Date:      Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:07:30 -0300
From:      "Nicolas Gieczewski" <foo@bar.org>
To:        <freebsd-java@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How's linux-ibm-jdk14 in the memory footprint department?
Message-ID:  <01d401c3bf50$ef5a5770$0200a8c0@veggy.org>
References:  <2946E9F05C8DD511A7DC0002A5608CE4DB2012@gbchm201.exgb01.exch.eds.com>

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Well, naturally the 203 MB cannot be in physical memory all at the same =
time on a box with 64 MB of RAM, but the JVM's total memory footprint =
(text + code + data) is 203 MB, and I can feel it in the constant disk =
paging taking place while it's running.

I'm still hoping someone using IBM's JVM will eventually get back to me =
and tell me its memory footprint is around the same, so that I won't get =
an urge to reboot for USER_LDT to take effect in order to be able to use =
linux-ibm-jdk14 instead :-)

Cheers,
Nick


----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Sparrevohn, Thomas" <thomas.sparrevohn@eds.com>
To: "'Nicolas Gieczewski'" <foo@bar.org>; <freebsd-java@freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 10:49
Subject: RE: How's linux-ibm-jdk14 in the memory footprint department?


The real memory usage is much smaller - I would think that it is because =
it allocated the memory range but never actually uses it.=20


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-java@freebsd.org =
[mailto:owner-freebsd-java@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Nicolas Gieczewski
Sent: 09 December 2003 18:13
To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: How's linux-ibm-jdk14 in the memory footprint department?


Hello Gabriel,

Thank you for your response. I doubt it's the GC, for memory usage jumps =
to those values right after the VM starts, i.e. when there's not much to =
garbage collect yet. Also, it says around those figures for the rest of =
the program's lifetime. This is a console application, by the way.

What I'd like to know is whether IBM's implementation of the JVM happens =
to use a little less memory. I think 203 MB is too much for a console =
application, and that box only has 64 MB of RAM. I did install =
linux-ibm-jdk14 to check this myself, but found out it requires the =
USER_LDT setting in the kernel, and I can't reboot because of a stupid =
setting since I'm running important services on the box.

Any linux-ibm-jdk14 fans out there?

Thanks,
Nick


----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Gabriel Ambuehl" <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
Cc: <freebsd-java@freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 13:01
Subject: Re: How's linux-ibm-jdk14 in the memory footprint department?


Hello Nicolas,

Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 3:57:10 PM, you wrote:

> Hello,

> Sun's VM eats up ~203 MB of memory to run a small program on my=20
> FreeBSD box, whereas on Windows it only uses ~23 MB. Besides not=20
> understanding how the difference can be so big, I wonder if anyone has =

> tried linux-ibm-jdk14? Is it a memory hog like Sun's?

Are you sure this isn't just some Garbage collector behaving =
differently?

Best regards,
 Gabriel



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