FC3 sucks. It takes up too much memory!

[Edward Yang]

micheal wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 11:44 +0800, Edward Yang wrote:
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>>micheal wrote: 
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>>>On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 17:32 -0600, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
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>>>>James Mckenzie wrote:
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>>>>>However, this has nothing to do with the OPs problems with FC3 using up memory and we could take this to another thread.
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>>>>I couldn't agree more... I'll make another thread titled "Linux Sun's 
>>>>JVM needs improvement"
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>>>Unless I am retarded, which I might be, I think the the amount of memory
>>>taken up by a VM is specified in the command used to start the java VM
>>>something like -Xs512M -Xi512M come to mind, which would set the minimum
>>>and maximum memory taken up at 512 Megs, so the amount of memory used by
>>>the VM is configurable,  what is not however is how the garbage
>>>collector utilizes that memory.  I cannot think of a single command on
>>>any OS for any JM that would tell you how much of the heap was utilized.
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>>>Just my blathering
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>>>MC 
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>>I don't have those two options in jdk.config. I do find the following
>>options in cbulder.config:
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>>vmparam -Xms32m
>>vmparam -Xmx256m
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>>So I wonder why the JVM instance invoked by CBX takes up more than
>>400mb memory?
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>What command did you use to determine the memory size,  I know that a
>simple ps -ef|grep -i java will tell you the exact java command that is
>lauched with all of the options
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I got the following two options after running ps -ef|grep -i java:

--Xms32m -Xmx256m

So that's exactly the same options in cbuilder.config.

BTW, I get memory footprint values from the System Monitor tool.

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