On a Ultra 10 with 128 megs of RAM running build 36 of Solaris 8 (s28_36), when starting sdtaudiocontrol, the java process used to actually run the audio control application takes 45 megs of RAM. This is reported by top :

load averages: 0.24, 0.16, 0.18 15:52:50
111 processes: 110 sleeping, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 60.9% idle, 15.4% user, 9.6% kernel, 14.2% iowait, 0.0% swap
Memory: 128M real, 1832K free, 206M swap in use, 379M swap free

  PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME CPU COMMAND
11057 rb91527 12 10 0 45M 28M sleep 0:04 11.90% java
21579 root 1 59 0 43M 17M sleep 82:42 3.35% Xsun
11069 root 1 60 0 5472K 3016K sleep 0:00 1.35% cg
28118 rb91527 1 48 0 54M 20M sleep 6:39 0.74% .netscape.bin
21704 rb91527 8 59 0 9312K 5360K sleep 0:41 0.33% dtwm
11027 rb91527 1 49 0 1592K 1072K cpu 0:00 0.21% top
11029 rb91527 1 59 0 6944K 3904K sleep 0:00 0.16% dtterm
 5342 rb91527 1 48 0 9712K 4472K sleep 0:03 0.13% _progres
11031 rb91527 1 59 0 1600K 944K sleep 0:00 0.07% csh
 5274 rb91527 7 59 0 47M 4512K sleep 0:05 0.06% soffice.bin
11039 rb91527 1 24 0 1808K 1136K sleep 0:00 0.05% sdtaudiocontrol
  272 root 11 60 0 2408K 848K sleep 1:45 0.04% mibiisa
26503 rb91527 1 49 0 7008K 3296K sleep 0:02 0.04% dtterm
11028 rb91527 1 53 0 3136K 2032K sleep 0:00 0.03% dtexec
  185 root 10 58 0 2808K 1168K sleep 0:03 0.01% nscd


Tested on a Ultra 2 with 256 megs of ram and running build 3 of Solaris 9 showed the same comportment by "eating" 109 megs of ram.