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[Adam Porter <889084@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hm, I don't think ZFS is a relevant comparison.  It's a filesystem, and
one basically intended for server use, anyway.

That Java is a pig for desktop apps is well known and self-evident.
Among the ones I've used over the years are Azureus, NeverNote,
CrashPlan, and others that I can't think of at the moment.  And they are
all slow to load and use much more memory than equivalent programs
written in C (or even Python).  They also hold on to memory that they no
longer need, whereas otherwise it could release it (if properly
written).

It might be ok for 8-core, 8 GB machines that are rarely rebooted--but
there are a wide range of devices that such software needs to run on.
Dropbox uses about 70 MB on my 2 GB netbook--and even that's pushing it.
It's not practical for services that run all the time in the background
to use hundreds of megs of memory.  Pretty soon you don't have any left
to run actual apps (including ever-growing hogs like Firefox).

Yes, yes: open-source, Free Software, freedom-to-fork, spare-time, show-
us-the-code, patches-welcome, blah, blah, blah.  I'm no newbie to FOSS--
I've heard all this before.  I'm just making a few points about why Java
is not a good choice for this kind of project, and why it will hinder
the project in the long run.  Time will tell.  Feel free to ignore
everything I say.  No offense intended.

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Title:
  Java memory usage

Status in Syncany:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Just running deamon, java process use lot of memory (near to 1Go!)

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