How's linux-ibm-jdk14 in the memory footprint department?

Tue Dec 9 08:00:48 PST 2003

Hello Nicolas,

Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 3:57:10 PM, you wrote:

> Hello,

> Sun's VM eats up ~203 MB of memory to run a small program on my
> FreeBSD box, whereas on Windows it only uses ~23 MB. Besides not
> understanding how the difference can be so big, I wonder if anyone
> has tried linux-ibm-jdk14? Is it a memory hog like Sun's?

Are you sure this isn't just some Garbage collector behaving
differently?

Best regards,
 Gabriel