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Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 08:30:21 -0700
From: Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>
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Subject: Re: Java on FreeBSD 6.x - reserving too much memory.
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On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 01:13:31PM +0200, Sten Daniel Soersdal wrote:
> I administrate a couple of -STABLE servers running Java applications and 
> i notice they reserve somewhere between 500 megs and 800 megs of memory, 
> even for the simplest of applications. Is this something to worry about 
> when i now need to increase the number of Java applications running 
> simultaneously? Are there any ways to reduce this to some sane levels?

You could try playing with -Xms and -Xmx.

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