Crazy-huge JDK 1.2 memory usage reported by top/ps

[Bryce McKinlay]

Hi, I have a weird problem with JDK 1.2 - 'ps' and 'top' report massive amounts of memory being used by the jdk whenever I run *anything* in java:

[bryce@p2-bryce bryce]$ ps aux | grep java
USER       PID %CPU %MEM  SIZE   RSS TTY STAT START   TIME COMMAND
bryce    31839  6.9 11.6 75424  7380  p0 S    22:12   0:01 /usr/local/java/bin/i
bryce    31863  0.0 11.6 75424  7380  p0 S    22:12   0:00 /usr/local/java/bin/i
bryce    31864  0.0 11.6 75424  7380  p0 S    22:12   0:00 /usr/local/java/bin/i
bryce    31865  0.0 11.6 75424  7380  p0 S    22:12   0:00 /usr/local/java/bin/i
bryce    31866  0.1 11.6 75424  7380  p0 S    22:12   0:00 /usr/local/java/bin/i

I'm pretty sure that java isn't *really* using 75MB of memory - total mem usage, as reported by top, only increases by 5MB or so.

What could be causing this??

System info:

[bryce@p2-bryce bryce]$ rpm -q glibc procps
glibc-2.0.7-29
procps-1.2.9-2

[bryce@p2-bryce bryce]$ uname -a
Linux p2-bryce 2.2.4 #1 Wed Mar 24 14:14:26 NZST 1999 i686 unknown

regards
 
   [ bryce ]