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  1. Xiaobin Lu on the actual memory consumed by Java (1 messages)

    Xiaobin Lu, in "Perception == Reality," blogs about another Mustang feature: removing the memory-mapping of rt.jar (and other such resources), changing the (perceived) memory footprint of the java process to be closer to the actual memory footprint.
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  2. Nice stuff![ Go to top ]

    Good to see that I won't have to explain this to admins trying to figure out where all their memory is going on our production Linux servers.

    One minor nit:
    By doing what I just described, we effectively bring the perceived footprint down by around 120% [...]

    Wow, so it uses negative information? ;)

    --james
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