how much memory does applet need to execute ?

[guppy]

how much memory does your applet need to execute ?

i still see memory being used up and not released when the applet is terminated or a tab is closed. A running Applet seesm to use about 29Meg of heap space. And some of that heap keeps getting lost as it appears to be invisible to Java's garbage collection capabilities.


Apple provides a more efficient facility for executing an applet outside of a browser environment but apparently the Applet looks for cookies or whatever and cant find them unless running in a browser. It would also use less CPU that way. I run an Ameitrade trading applet out of that alternate utility and it runs more cleanly as well.

[eSignal_ToddI]

Tests showed initial usage of about 10-13 MB.

Tests for memory consumption showed it was normal to see from the intial 13 MB memory usage, memory would increase to ~30 MB or even more, and then after java finishes garbage collecting, it would drop to ~20-25 MB.

[guppy]

so you start out with 13M used then run the applet quit out of it and after garbage collection completion you see 20-25M in use ?

so 7M of memory which should have been returned to the heap is still allocated to a nonexistent applet ?


it seems that memory leaks of some sort are occurring