Name: bsC130419 Date: 06/05/2001


java version "1.4.0-beta"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.0-beta-b65)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.0-beta-b65, mixed mode)


God Help us! You guys have done an awesome job on Performance, but Memory
usage is pitiful.

Here is the scoop - I am writing the GUI for the new iPlanet Instant Messaging
app and memory use is unreal. The reason i am submitting this as a bug is
because if my client application is run under Microsoft's Evil JVIEW (swing is
being used), it uses FAR less memory!!

My client running with Jview uses around 10MB of Memory and will grow to 16MB
after a lot of use. I thought that was pretty bad.

Java 1.3.1 Starts up at 15MB - 5MB more than JVIEW and grows to somewhere
around 25MB running similar tests.

Java 1.4.beta now starts up at almost 20MB - but i will admit that the memory
management seems to be a little better because it still only grows to 25MB.

For a server app, this is fine - The real problem is that this is a simple
client.

Other test run by loading a simple JFrame with a few components added show
JVIEW at 6MB and Suns Java still at 10MB or more!

** When you try to sell something like this to a customer and a simple
application uses more memory than any other app on their system - you have a
real problem!
(Review ID: 125887)
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