It happens in different apps, it's not Eclipse only, or Java apps only.
Problem is iTunes.
On 1/4/06, *Russ Trotter* < email@hidden
<mailto:email@hidden>> wrote:
Ok, well, as I type this email, eclipse is scratching the audio and i'm
getting ready to restart it :-(
what sort of measurement would help diagnose the problem?
btw, i'm trying it with the default for heap max (i.e. i omit an -Xmx
option entirely from my eclipse.init) and i'll report what I find.
russ
Greg Guerin wrote:
> Russ Trotter wrote:
>
>
>>Hi Greg, just to clarify, I had said that my *total* physical
memory is
>>1GB. Free memory when eclipse "warms" up is around 40 MB with
the other
>>things i have running (iTunes, safaris, one firefox window,
thunderbird,
>>terminals, etc)
>
>
> Sorry for my confusion. I was mixing up your config with Rick
Genter's post:
> < http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/2006/Jan/msg00004.html>
>
>
>>is that 40mb free the smoking gun?
>
>
> Can't tell. However, with a heap-max of 512MB, you may well be
> over-committing your machine's memory, as Shawn Erickson pointed
out. That
> is, if you don't have 512MB to spare, you can induce swapping,
which leads
> to other problems. See the post I cited before:
> <http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev/2005/Aug/msg00053.html>
>
> However, since at least 2 other people have posted that they have
huge
> tracts of free memory yet they still get audio breakup, it
doesn't seem
> like swapping is the problem. Based on all the reports posted
here, it's
> impossible to infer or conclude anything about a probable
cause. There
> just isn't enough detail or measurements of what's happening in each
> situation.
>
>
> Also, I ran 'vm_stat 3' on a dual G4, 1GB machine this morning
and moved
> the mouse around a lot in Terminal (mouse-move, not
mouse-drag). It showed
> 200-300 "page faults" all of which were "zero fill": no
copy-on-writes, no
> page outs, no page ins, no reactivates, etc. This was done with no
> Eclipse, no Java, no iTunes, just Terminal and Finder. So just
because
> there are "page faults" doesn't necessarily tell you much.
>
> -- GG
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
> Java-dev mailing list (email@hidden
<mailto:email@hidden>)
> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
>
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/java-dev/email@hidden
>
> This email sent to email@hidden
<mailto:email@hidden>
>
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Java-dev mailing list ( email@hidden
<mailto:email@hidden>)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/java-dev/email@hidden
<http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/java-dev/email@hidden>
This email sent to email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden>
