Understanding Memory Usage On Linux

Percy_Blakeney writes "Have you ever wondered why a simple text editor on Linux can use dozens of megabytes of memory? A recent blog posting explains how the output of the ps tool is misleading and how you can get a better idea of how much memory a process really uses."

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Re:The only thing running

[mi]

It wouldn't be hard to create a launcher that would run them all on the same virtual machine. Such a launcher would a candidate for the system integration you suggest. After all, if you needed to run Windows apps on your Linux box, you wouldn't run multiple instances of VMWare, would you?

Actually, a JVM is even less stable than Windows. It was not designed as a real OS. The garbage-collection, for example, will freeze the entire VM for as long as it needs to run -- and sometimes it goes out of whack and hangs permanently...