I have installed jre1.4.2_14 and I have been trying to get a small "hello
world type" program to run.
Once I got jre installed, I open my dos window and changed directories to
folder on on my local drive that contains the jave program.

I am reading the book "In side the JVM", and very interested in the
internals of JVM.  I want to find a simple JVM to read the code.  Is
there any good JVM for research?  I have looked at kaffe, but not sure
it is suitable for research or not.

I used JProf to see that my Swing app has 40 megs of heap allocated to
it. However, over time VM size of the java.exe process keeps on rising
and at times hits 300 megs. I understand that the JVM may be using
this memory for internal purposes. But is there a way to limit the

This here came up on the Soot mailing list... (see
http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/pipermail/soot-list/2007-June/001238.html).
It would be great if you could comment on the problem if you know of
anything that could be helpful.