maximum memory for gcj-compiled executable?

Fri Apr 4 12:56:00 GMT 2003

Ranjit Mathew wrote:
>>I have made this simple program that reads a web page, and then does
>>nothing with it ;)
>>>>Compile it under win32/mingw using Mohan's latest GCC3.3
>>>>Run it. 
>>>>The heap soon stabilizes and stays put (about 1000KB)
>>>>Now open the task manager and watch memory usage slowly grow and grow
>>and grow....
>>> Yes, I see this behaviour too. Even after statically allocating
> "buf" and "output" (and remembering to output.setLength( 0) at the
> start of read( )) and explicitly closing streams and connections
> and even omitting the creation of the intermediate strings...i.e.
> the mere act of reading is causing this increase!
>> Don't know what's causing it and I wouldn't venture a guess 
> either. :-(
>> Ranjit.

Just tried it reading a file instead of reading a web page.
This did not exhibit any growing mem usage.
This is likely a problem in java.net / mingw
/Lars Andersen