Excessive memory usage by java applications

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Issue

After reboot the computer shows 95% memory free.

When java is started, memory free goes to 80%.

After some time running memory free goes to 3%.

After java is stopped memory usage does not go down until the next reboot.

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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