radish;158409 Wrote: > You seem to think pretty much everything sucks! Whilst I reserve > judgment on UPS, and Firefox has been behaving itself for me lately, I > take issue with your anti-Java rant. Having a JVM running certainly > adds a memory-usage overhead to your app, it's typically around > 10-20mb. Java apps can leak memory just as easily as anything else, but > I notice you don't blame gcc for Firefox's memory problems :)
All software sucks. This is hardly news... "typically around 10-20mb" is certainly not the case I see. Let's look again: USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND bem 20812 0.0 11.4 321052 29276 pts/3 S 09:26 0:00 /home/bem/jre1.5.0_07/bin/java -Xbootclasspath/a Yes, resident size is 29M... look at the virtual size: what the heck is it doing demanding 320M of virtual memory? As for gcc/firefox: do recall that C makes no effort at all to provide for garbage collection and recycling. I don't blame my cable company for not picking up the trash: it isn't something they claim to do. I will blame my trash company if they don't visit, since that garbage collection is exactly what they promise. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30145 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
