Re: maximum memory for gcj-compiled executable?

[Lars Andersen <lars at rimfaxe dot com>]

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