From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 23 01:47:06 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD72916A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:47:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fuse1.fusemail.net (smtp.fusemail.net [69.31.1.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EA3543D58 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:47:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brianjohn@fusemail.com) Received: from fusemail.com by fuse1.fusemail.net with asmtp (FuseMail extSMTP) id 1D3lc7-0001g1-Ej for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:46:56 -0600 Message-ID: <421BE0A2.905@fusemail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:47:14 -0600 From: Brian John User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050214) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: java applications taking up too much memory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:47:06 -0000 Hello, It seems that my java applications are taking up a ton of memory. Even one small jar that I start at startup takes up almost 200 MB! I start it like this: java -Xms4m -Xmx8m -jar /home/brian/serverWatcher/serverwatcher.jar & and it looks like this in top: 76750 brian 20 0 159M 10840K kserel 0:03 0.00% 0.00% java I start Azureus like this: azureus -Xmx128m and it looks like this in top: 59636 brian 20 0 503M 228M kserel 2:37 0.00% 0.00% java I only have 512M of memory on this machine. Does anyone have any idea how I can make these apps take up less memory? Thanks /Brian