Memory Accounting, JDKs [was: Re: [Techtalk] Java on Linux]
Nicole Zimmerman
colby at wsu.edu
Thu Jan 10 17:12:47 EST 2002
This is what I'm doing right now (they all report the same value) and it
doesn't seem right.
Server = 254M
Client = 226M
GUI = 205M
System reports: 243M memory used, 6M free
-nicole
At 17:33 on Jan 10, Aaron Mulder combined all the right letters to say:
> When running with "native threads" (one process per thread), you
> get this effect. All the processes representing threads in the same VM
> report the same memory numbers, I think. So if you were able to get
> processes from all 3 JVMs showing in "top", you should see only 3 distinct
> memory numbers (though each repeated across several processes).
> It should be fairly easy to record the process number of the
> initial java process as each VM is launched (there's a shell variable,
> like $! or something), and there has got to be some way to show a
> process's ID and parent process ID through top or ps or something if you
> really want to track them all down. But I don't know how to do that
> without spending some time communing with man pages.
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