You might want to use the G1 collector (JVM opt UseG1GC) if you're using Java 7 as I've heard that the G1 collector gives memory back to the OS more readily than the other options.
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Jarrod Swart <jcsw...@gmail.com> wrote: > This was talked about here: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/clojure/user$3A$20g$20vim/clojure/XqPGnX5aSAI/PoLYaydgX3cJ > > TLDR: The JVM carves out its own chunk of memory from the OS. It then > uses very advanced and finely tuned means to manage said memory. So even > though the app isn't doing anything the JVM is still using its memory. > Best to load up your app and profile it with VisualVM to see what is > actually going on. > > > On Saturday, January 25, 2014 12:44:28 PM UTC-5, Anurag Ramdasan wrote: >> >> I've been playing around with clojure for a while now but never actually >> made anything in it. >> Today I started looking around into pedestal and started following its >> tutorials. Once I kept the >> server running for a few hours I noticed that it took upto 500MB of my >> ram even though it wasn't really >> doing anything. Is pedestal usually this memory hungry? >> >> I know that usually things running on JVM have some amount of memory >> usage. Are all full-fledged apps >> written in Clojure usually memory intensive? If not, does clojure have a >> lightweight, less memory consuming >> web framework? >> >> Thanks, >> Anurag Ramdasan. >> > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
