Hmm, I may have another explanation, and A. Khattri, I owe you an apology. I just noticed something interesting in my top output:
Swap: 2097144k total, 28192k used, 2068952k free, 687764k cached PID USER PR NI %MEM VIRT RES CODE DATA SWAP SHR S %CPU TIME+ COMMAND 3619 rjf 16 0 3.2 249m 32m 1468 210m 217m 19m S 0.0 7:17.89 amarokapp Notice that my swap used is only 28M, but amarokapp shows 217M of swap. Somebody is lying!! My guess is that amarokapp uses mmap for accessing files, so they get mapped into its virtual memory space. But, since that 'memory' really exists on the hard drive, that portion of the apps virtual memory shows up as swap. Jose, do you see the same effect? If so, what files does your java program open, does it use mmap, and are they particularly large? You can use something like 'strace -e open,mmap' to be sure. -Richard Richard Fish wrote: >A. Khattri wrote: > > > >>On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: >> >> >> >> >>>It seems Java takes 1,5Gb of memory!!! Am I right? >>> >>> >>> >>> >Seems to be right. Wow. Even VMWare running XP on my system only >consumes 350MB of memory!! > > > >>Isn't that "virtual memory" ? >> >>The resident size is 80Mb no? >> >> >> >> > >Virtual memory = resident + swap. > >man top. > >-Richard > > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
