Q: runaway memory consumption?

Posted by Steve Nanchy on Jul 26, 2005; 2:48pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Q-runaway-memory-consumption-tp3705132.html

Has anyone else run into the problem of 'runaway' memory consumption?

Specifically, on an iMac 600mhz, OS 10.3.5, java 1.42, ImageJ 1.33u: if I
start the ImageJ app and opens a memory monitor window it clocks-up memory
at a slow but steady rate with periodic pauses where it frees-up _some_ of
the RAM; but the trendline is always increasing.  Immediately starting up
ij.jar (a copy of it being at the same folder level as the app, so it is
assumed that it's got access to the same pluging/macros/etc.) and opening a
window shows the trendline periodically cycling between approximately 2 and
4 meg as it refreshes.

After about an hour, ij.jar is still bouncing in 2-4 meg while the
application has humped-up to about 50 meg.  No other processes or documents
were running in either case - just one memory monitor window each.  I could
understand the app consuming a bit more memory, since it IS an app; but not
the progressive consumption.

It's not a big bother for me since I normally run ij.jar directly; but I
thought it was a curiosity.  Can anyone else duplicate this behavior (the
memory-thing, NOT the curiosity :P)?

-s-