Thanks Robert - I found https://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/jvmmonitor/
which I managed to get running in a few minutes and has pretty realtime graphs!
Good enough to get started :-)
From: rme...@hotmail.co.uk
To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org
Subject: RE: Memory usage and page
Having now done a few runs using JVM Monitor on both Ubuntu 32 bit and 64 bit,
I've found that the heap memory is slightly less when page numbers with totals
are used compared to no page numbers at all. Slightly less, but really nothing
worth howling about.
From the FOP section on Memory