Java issue

[Charlie Lesh]

Tom wrote:

>I don't know if this is a 2.6 kernel issue, eclipse, or fedora but here goes...
>I've got fc 2 installed with eclipse and j2sdk 1.4.2 from sun.  I'm trying to
>compile a pretty big project, but I've compiled it before, and its always
>worked.  However now with FC 2, it dies about 30 seconds in saying the system
>is out of resources.  I open eclipse with vmArgs Xmx768M (which is what I've
>always done, and has worked with redhat9, FC1, and Mandrake 9.1 to compile this
>project).  In top, as soon as I open eclipse the java process is reported as
>taking up 950-980M of RAM.  I don't know if this happened in other settings, I
>never looked.  Anyway, although top reports that java is taking 950M of ram in
>the process listing, in the summary it reports that only 200M of ram is being
>used by the entire system.  Any ideas?
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Tom:
Have you tried the beta JDK of 1.5.0? I use eclipse of Fedora 2 
(although I admit my projects are small), and I haven't had this 
problem.  It wouldn't hurt to install it and give it a shot. I'm running 
it on Fedora 2, and it seems to be both faster and more stable, eclipse 
included.

I actually have both 1.4.2 and 1.5.0 installed, and I modify a 'java.sh' 
that I keep in /etc/profile.d to point to one or the other. For now I'm 
sticking with 1.5.0.

Just my 2 cents.

-charlie