[plug] Process memory usage

[Matt Kemner]

On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Christian wrote:

> neptune:~# ps aux | egrep 'ishopper|PID'
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM  SIZE   RSS TTY STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> ishopper 26684  0.1  6.8 19996  2116   4 S    15:13   0:01
> /logs/java/bin/../bin
> 
> Does this mean that the third process there is using up 20 megabytes of
> RAM?

Yes.

> Ok, so I know that is what it means - from the manual page - but it seems
> rather odd since the vendor of this program suggests that it should only
> require about 4 megabytes of RAM (running under Solaris/NT) so I'm
> starting to suspect that this means that the JDK 1.1.7 for Linux (which
> I'm using - the application is Java-based) is the culprit... anyone know a
> way of cutting down this usage?

None that I know of.. I had this problem when I was playing with Mosaic
(nice browser, but takes up way too much memory because of the jdk)

> On a related matter, does anyone know what the status is for Java 1.2 on
> Linux?  Is Sun doing an official port or will the Java-Linux Porting
> Project be doing something again? 

I'm hoping, with Sun announcing support of linux, that they will be doing
an official port of the jdk to linux RSN.

 - Matt