On 11 February 2010 15:29, Caldarale, Charles R <chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> wrote: >> From: Peter Crowther >> 3) Most insidiously, if the system's loaded or allocated something >> that it can't move in the middle of your process' address space, it >> may be unable to move that. > > Doesn't happen. The JVM reserves the maximum heap space, but doesn't commit > or otherwise touch it until needed. Nothing else can be allocated in the > reserved space. Regardless, once an item (e.g., DLL) is loaded in a > particular process space, it won't be moved (it might be removed, but not > relocated).
That's good to know. My "deep" knowledge of process memory allocation is still stuck in the dark ages, with the old-style UNIX brk(2); at least the modern OSs are better than that! - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
