Re: [ jEdit-users ] jEdit 4.2pre8 now available

[Harpreet S. <hs...@fa...>]

I don't mean to make a joke out of it but why not just shut it down at the end 
of the day. why leave it running for 5 days minimized.

Yes, I know this is not the solution for the problem.


Harpreet Singh
hs...@fa...

On 1/6/2004 12:28 PM, Doug Breaux wrote:
> Right.  What I'm saying, though, is that memory is creeping up even when 
> I'm not using jEdit at all.  It's sitting minimized, and has been for 
> several days, but its memory footprint in Windows is increasing.  If I 
> restore it then re-minimize it, the footprint goes back down, but it 
> starts gradually creeping up again.  Perhaps this is normal, but I just 
> wanted to note it since the original poster commented that his system 
> was actually running out of memory if he left jEdit running.
> 
> Doug
> 
> Frank Zimmer wrote:
> 
>> This is very dependant of your Java Runtime Settings, the version of 
>> your JVM ....
>> I don't know your setting for starting jedit on  windows but in the 
>> lower right corner you have the Java Heap
>> displayed. this is something like 12/60 MB (depending on your start 
>> settings)
>> That means that your JVM has a Maximum of 60 MB (in this example) and 
>> is using currently only 12 of them.
>> Depending on your settings the jedit process has something between 12 
>> and 60 MB Space used.
>> For that example the total memory used by Jedit should not grow over 
>> 60 MB + some MB for the JVM itself (
>> i don't know this exact value, can be about further 10 or 15 MB)
>>
>> Doug Breaux wrote:
>>
>>> Yep.  Coming back in today, jEdit is using 25 MB, again, with no 
>>> usage of it (or the whole computer for that matter) for 5 days.
>>>
>>> Doug Breaux wrote:
>>>
>>>> Interesting.  I've left jEdit running on my work computer while I've 
>>>> been away today, and it does seem to be creeping up in memory.  I 
>>>> started it up and minimized it, and Win(2K) reported its memory use 
>>>> dropping down to 2 MB.  I just checked again, several hours later, 
>>>> and with jEdit staying minimized and no other user activity 
>>>> occurring at all on the computer, it's now up to 15 MB.  I'll keep 
>>>> watching it.
>>>>
>>>> Lee Turner wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>  
>>>>> I installed pre 8 on my laptop (win 2000) and on my work desktop 
>>>>> machine (win NT4) as soon as I saw this announcement and all seemed 
>>>>> to be well.  I tend to keep my machines on for a while and just 
>>>>> sleep the laptop and lock the workstation when I am not using 
>>>>> them.  I have now had pre 8 installed for a day and a night and I 
>>>>> have had a "Low on virtual memory" error on both my laptop and my 
>>>>> work machine.  I saw the error on the laptop first last night but I 
>>>>> didn't think much of it as I was burning a CD while using jEdit and 
>>>>> I had also installed iTunes just after installing pre 8 so it could 
>>>>> have been that that caused the problem (my laptop has 256MB RAM).  
>>>>> However, I came into work this morning and my workstation had 
>>>>> ground to a halt and collapsed in a heap with a "Low on virtual 
>>>>> memory" error.  I haven't seen this on my work machine before and 
>>>>> the only thing that had changed was I had installed pre 8. My work 
>>>>> machine has 512MB RAM.  I thought I would post this message here to 
>>>>> see if anyone else had noticed anything similar ??
>>>>>  
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Lee
> 
> 
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