Re: java + X11 memory leak (a crazy idea)

1999-08-15 Thread Bernd Kreimeier
Nelson Minar writes: > javares. Info is at http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/javares/ The archive seemed to cover the first two weeks only? > There's room for a good project here. There are some partial solutions > now, JRes is probably the best known one. The web site referred to in one of the ar

Re: java + X11 memory leak (a crazy idea)

1999-08-15 Thread Nelson Minar
> > javares. Info is at http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/javares/ >The archive seemed to cover the first two weeks only? No, that's the full archive. My impression is a lot of people are interested in the problem but not many people are working on it. >>There's room for a good project here. There are

Re: java + X11 memory leak (a crazy idea)

1999-08-12 Thread Nelson Minar
If you're interested in Java resource management, I encourage you to carry on the discussion on a mailing list I run for just that purpose, javares. Info is at http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/javares/ There are lots of people who are interested in this problem - real time folks, people running untrus

Re: java + X11 memory leak (a crazy idea)

1999-08-12 Thread Rob Clark
"Daniel W. Dulitz x108" wrote: > Rob Clark writes: > > Here's a crazy idea: the whole problem, as I see it, arises because > > the JVM's garbage collector only knows of one resource pool, the > > heap, when in fact there are other resource pools outside the JVM > > that it should also concern its

Re: java + X11 memory leak (a crazy idea)

1999-08-12 Thread Daniel W. Dulitz x108
Rob Clark writes: > Here's a crazy idea: the whole problem, as I see it, arises because > the JVM's garbage collector only knows of one resource pool, the > heap, when in fact there are other resource pools outside the JVM > that it should also concern itself with. [...] > > For example, sun could

Re: java + X11 memory leak (a crazy idea)

1999-08-12 Thread Rob Clark
Here's a crazy idea:   the whole problem, as I see it, arises because the JVM's garbage collector only knows of one resource pool, the heap, when in fact there are other resource pools outside the JVM that it should also concern itself with.  Say, for example, you implement a class, FooBar, that