> Have you ever had to explain to someone that a java out of memory error had nothing do with the fact that linux is using otherwise idle memory to buffer i/o a

> Have you ever had to explain to someone that a java out of memory error had nothing do with the fact that linux is using otherwise idle memory to buffer i/o and that they're misreading top output? That the actual issue is their object management and just increasing the JVM's heap size is at best a bandaid? Is there somewhere to read about this, I this might have come up with one of our projects. (At the time, from googling, I suggested they try mark and sweep - I didn't really have any idea but was of the opinion they had lots of small objects.) I don't have much experience in Java but was trying to be helpful!