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Hotspot vs. virtual memory

August 8th, 2008 · No Comments

http://kennke.org/blog/2008/08/08/hotspot-vs-virtual-memory/ asks Hoosgot,

Dear Lazyweb. It seems to me that (on the Hotspot VM) the Java heap is always kept in RAM and never swapped out, because the GC is continually accessing the memory. For example, if I have Firefox, Evolution and Eclipse running, and then start a compilation that takes a lot of memory, Firefox and Evolution get swapped out, while Eclipse (which take

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