Why does my javaw.exe keep growing in size used in RAM?

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From: Matthew Crosswell
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 23:28

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I have a 10,000 byte JTextArea inside a jScrollPane and when I leave it
displaying output from a scheduled thread it consumes massive amounts of RAM
62MB was biggest seen yet. I have some code to trim it to the size above and
this is working.

One idea that occured is that it could be pending region updates kept in RAM
can it?
Interestingly when I minimise the application all the RAM is released and it
goes back to 3-6 MB used.

What is going on? Am I missing something really simple.

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