On 20 July 2012 08:52, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 02:36 +0300, Veeti Paananen wrote: >> Out of curiosity, I tried installing one of the examples you mentioned >> and Vuze gobbled up 160 megabytes instantly which is completely >> unacceptable for a torrent client. >> >> That might not sound like a lot nowadays, but it adds up surprisingly >> quickly with "just" 4 gigabytes of memory. > > Yes, programmers seem to forget that just because you have X amount of > RAM and y CPU speed, that you don't want one program to use all of it by > itself. You want to be able to do several things simultaneously. > Programmers generally write the programme to do what it's meant to do. That said see Andrew Haley's reply, the Java VM when it starts says 'I /may/ need this much memory', is doesn't take it all up unless it's actually used. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
