I bought my new laptop for two reasons: 1. Keyboard stopped working (main reason) 2. My recent use of IntelliJ causes too much disk swapping
InelliJ is a Java IDe and consumes a shitload of RAM. My Sony laptop never did much disk swapping because it had 256MB ram. That is, until I started using IntellJ. Whenever my laptop started doing disk swapping I would go to task manager and sure enough IntelliJ was using 50 to 100 MB of memory. So, I just said to my self that Java IDE's are all just memory pigs. After all JBuilder and Sun's Forte/NetBeans are even MORE memory hogs than IntelliJ. So when I got my XP Toshiba the only program that didn't work was Morpeus. And I can't live without that. So I started using LimeWire, a really cool Java Swing based Gnutella client. I really like LimeWire. It's much more polished than morpeus. However, after using it my disk swapping came back. Fuck! I have a brand new laptop with 512MB of RAM and it's freaking disk swapping. This pisses me off. Looking into task manager, I find LimeWire is almost as much of a memory hog as IntelliJ. So in short, my 512MB of RAM has gained me nothing for (i think) two reasons: 1. Forced to use limewire instead of morpheus. 2. XP is more of a memory hog than win2000 (i think i can turn shit off but i'm not sure) I am now pissed off that i spent all this time and money and still have excessive disk swapping. Here some questions I have: Does XP use more memory than win2000? Are LimeWire and IntelliJ poorly written applications or is Swing a memory hog? Something to think about if you'll be developing swing apps. =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com
