problem with Azureus

[Lowell Gilbert]

Warren <shinjii at virusinfo.rdksupportinc.com> writes:

> I recently had trouble with Azureus using approx 53% of my mem and 90% of my 
> SWAP so idecided to upgrade my RAM from 512 to 1gig thinking this would solve 
> my problem, but alas i was mistaken.
> 
> Is there a way i can instruct it so Azureus only uses a certain %?  As it is 
> when this program is running it pritty well much bogs down my machine making 
> it damn near impossible to do anything else.
> 
> It also uses so much it gets to the point where there is no more SWAP left for 
> it to use and ends up closing itself down.

You can always use process limits, but that will just cause the
process to close down sooner.

Azureus is a Java application, and Java does its own memory
management.  One implication of this is that its memory use should not
be able to grow unbounded.

A quick search pointed me at:
http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/MemoryUsage