Memory Needs
I’m wondering what the deal is with memory. No, I’m not asking for a price quote, I’m talking about the increase in times when I find that programs I use all the time are running into “out of memory” errors a lot more than they ever used to.
The programs that are encountering that error the most are written in Java. In fact, anytime I have an “out of memory” error, it can almost always be traced back to a Java app, Freenet 0.5 build 5109 and several related utilites, that’s running into memory errors. Generally, if I stop the utilities and restart freenet, that takes care of the problem for a couple of days and then I’m seeing “out of memory” again.
I’m running Sun Java 1.6.0_05 on an ASRock KVM?? Motherboard with an AMD Sempron 2400+ 1.67Ghz cpu with 512MB of ram. Windows XPPro service pack 2. These out of memory errors have only cropped up in the last three months or so.
Yah, I’ve done the sensible things… malware scans, uninstall stuff I’m not using anymore, not run processes that I don’t need to run and so on. I suppose that in the end it’s going to be attributable to memory leaks in the current build of Freenet .05. In the meantime, I’m thinking that I need to start shopping for a couple gigabytes worth of memory sticks.
I’m thinking though that this might be more related to changes in Sun Java’s 1.6.x_xx branch than the Freenet 0.5 version. The reason is that with the last couple of builds, Freenet 0.5 hasn’t changed overly much. Java on the other hand has gone through several updates in that same time. I wonder if it’s possible that some of those changes broke something that Freenet uses?
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I’m not so sure of that because I’ve not seen any changes yet.
But then again, I’m also not so sure your name is MP4 Player either.