Re: Memory leak in Java app
On 26.10.2007 02:24, Alan Morgan wrote:
In article <3Q9Ui.2598$Nz7.1118@nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com>,
Mark Space <markspace@sbc.global.net> wrote:
Alan Morgan wrote:
and this won't change. However, Process Explorer insists that my app,
which started off using 30MB of private memory, is now using 60MB. Forcing
a GC via JProfiler doesn't do anything to change this.
Obviously using JProfiler is going change the system behavior and mess
with these numbers blah blah Heisenberg. I realize this is not an exact
science.
Roedy's link explains that not calling dispose() on GUI objects results
in the underlying (native) objects being retained by the OS.
Mmm. I'm not using GUI objects but the same principles could apply to
other objects. I'll see if Purity can give me any information there.
Did you run the JVM with verbose GC trace? Did it tell anything
interesting?
Btw, 60MB does not sound much nowadays. I believe the JVM's default for
-Xmx is 64MB so you could expect it to grow a bit more without having
to worry.
Kind regards
robert
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