Example: create an java.awt.Image instance... the some/most of
the memory for the image is allocated under the X server process, but the
VM does not take this memory into account when deciding whether to garbage
collect. The result is that if you get rid of references to an Image,
the memory under the X server process isn't freed until the Image object
is gc'd, which doesn't happen because the VM is under it's threshold to
begin garbage collection. The solution, I think, would be to keep
track of memory used by XImage's, and count that towards the threshold
used to begin garbage-collection.
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