Thanks for the Memory (Leak)

#1 (**permalink**) May 20th, 2002

The preferred RAM for Limewire is a bit over 2 MB. Last time I checked, it was eating over 50 MB on a dual-USB iBook with 384 MB RAM.

Hey, this is a handy app., but it's an internet client, not Photoshop. What is it doing with all this RAM and why does it steadily increase as time goes by (another old song...)?

Taliban · #2 (**permalink**) May 20th, 2002

It's not a memory, it's the overhead for the Java Virtual Machine.

Freiluft · #3 (**permalink**) May 20th, 2002

So basically, the Java VM is like an emulator that eats a proportion of your available RAM?

Taliban · #4 (**permalink**) May 20th, 2002

Yes, it's sort of an abstraction layer between your operating system and the Java program. The problem is, that the JavaVM is a little bloated and slow, although Sun's latest JRE 1.4 (which will not be available for Macs in the near future) improves that greatly.

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