Linux Sun's JVM needs improvements

[James McKenzie]

Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
> Edward Yang wrote:
> 
>> Okay, I want to add more about Sun's JVM performance.
>>
>> I have posted a message to Sun's forum about the memory footprint of 
>> the JVM on FC3. Please visit 
>> http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=590956 for the message.
>>
>>
> I was about to point out that you were talking about *Linux*, in this 
> case Fedora Core 3 distribution, and everyone (apparently) undestood 
> that you were using *Windows* and that the problem showed in Windows... 
> I don't know if you could try and run a dedicated session of FC, just to 
> make sure the results are consistent with what you get in VPC... 
> Personally I've run into >400Mb memory foot print of Java *only* with 
> Azureus (a famous Java Torrent client), other applications, such as 
> LimeWire while DO populate the RAM get about 3/4 of that... However 
> *any* Java applet run through Firefox or Konqueror will *at the very 
> least* load 80Mb into memory, this after a fresh boot with a base memory 
> usage of about 98 Mb (measured with GkrellM)... I'll try to post in 
> general Linux forums about this in other distributions specificially 
> with Sun's JVM.
> 
Let us know the results.  I may go to Sun and see if there is a thread 
about this.

-- 
James McKenzie