Excessive memory usage by java applications
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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