On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 08:50:01AM +0100, Niklas Bergh wrote:
> >freenet  15628  0.0 71.1 656240 366232 pts/3 S    22:46   0:00 java
> -server -Xmx384MB freenet.node.Main
> >
> >656M of RAM seems a tad excessive.
> 
> Espacially since you have told the jvm to use a max of 384M.. How can
> that be?

Remember that that value is the size of the process address space. If you mmap
files then that value is included in the value, even thou they don't take up
actual memory (it's just a mapping into the buffer cache).

But there's no denying that JVMs are just memory eaters.

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