After trying to import the Java rt.jar Runtime core library using the language-java-classfile, I found that it was using huge amounts of memory.
I reduced the program demonstrating the problem to 100 lines and loaded it into hpaste . Without forcing streamme to evaluate on line 94, I have no chance of ever running it, because it absorbs all my memory. Forced streambefore passing it to getClass, but still uses huge amounts of memory:
34,302,587,664 bytes allocated in the heap
32,583,990,728 bytes copied during GC
139,810,024 bytes maximum residency (398 sample(s))
29,142,240 bytes maximum slop
281 MB total memory in use (4 MB lost due to fragmentation)
Generation 0: 64992 collections, 0 parallel, 38.07s, 37.94s elapsed
Generation 1: 398 collections, 0 parallel, 25.87s, 27.78s elapsed
INIT time 0.01s ( 0.00s elapsed)
MUT time 37.22s ( 36.85s elapsed)
GC time 63.94s ( 65.72s elapsed)
RP time 0.00s ( 0.00s elapsed)
PROF time 13.00s ( 13.18s elapsed)
EXIT time 0.00s ( 0.00s elapsed)
Total time 114.17s (115.76s elapsed)
%GC time 56.0% (56.8% elapsed)
Alloc rate 921,369,531 bytes per MUT second
Productivity 32.6% of total user, 32.2% of total elapsed
I thought the problem was that it ConstTableremained, so I tried to force it clson line # 94. But this only worsens the memory consumption and runtime:
34,300,700,520 bytes allocated in the heap
23,579,794,624 bytes copied during GC
487,798,904 bytes maximum residency (423 sample(s))
36,312,104 bytes maximum slop
554 MB total memory in use (10 MB lost due to fragmentation)
Generation 0: 64983 collections, 0 parallel, 71.19s, 71.48s elapsed
Generation 1: 423 collections, 0 parallel, 344.74s, 353.01s elapsed
INIT time 0.01s ( 0.00s elapsed)
MUT time 40.60s ( 42.38s elapsed)
GC time 415.93s (424.49s elapsed)
RP time 0.00s ( 0.00s elapsed)
PROF time 56.53s ( 57.71s elapsed)
EXIT time 0.00s ( 0.00s elapsed)
Total time 513.07s (524.58s elapsed)
%GC time 81.1% (80.9% elapsed)
Alloc rate 844,636,801 bytes per MUT second
Productivity 7.9% of total user, 7.7% of total elapsed
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