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Asked: 2026-06-17T01:40:29+00:00

Running my java application takes more memory on my new rhel62 machine. The same

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Running my java application takes more memory on my new rhel62 machine. The same program takes less memory on rhel55.

i wrote a very simple ‘HelloWorld’ java program, and run it. That too takes huge memory in rhel62. I am using Java_1.7 in both Rhel55 and Rhel62

import java.io.* ;
class HelloWorldApp {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello World!"); // Display the string.
        Console console = System.console();
        String input = console.readLine("Enter ...:");
        System.out.println(input);
    }
}
$ /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_09/bin/javac hello.java
$ /usr/java/jdk1.7.0_09/bin/java HelloWorldApp
Hello World!
Enter ...:

Java application on top command

rhel62 :
Linux qaatestp 2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 1 01:33:01 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
 5069 qaatestp  20   0 5557m  18m 7604 S  0.0  0.1   0:00.11 java
31719 qaatestp  20   0  105m 1972 1468 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.35 bash

rhel55 :
Linux qa2testp 2.6.18-238.5.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Feb 21 05:52:39 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
18065 qa2testp  17   0 2400m  14m 7508 S  0.0  0.2   0:00.22 java
17244 qa2testp  15   0 66196 1784 1232 S  0.0  0.0   0:00.81 bash

I have no idea why this behaves this way in rhel62, because of this i am facing unnecessary problems. Is this Linux rhel6.2 issue ? or Java issue? or No issue? 🙂

I thought of raising this here before asking the support teams. Please give your suggestions?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Thanks Very much for reply.

    This is because of memory allocation changes made on Rhel6. RHEL6 is allocating separate chunks of memory for each thread. In multicore processor, this will improve the performance, with memory overhead.
    There is an environment variable MALLOC_ARENA_MAX, setting this value as 1 is reducing this memory allocation. Please see the following link for more details.

    Linux glibc >= 2.10 (RHEL 6) malloc may show excessive virtual memory usage

    Thanks

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