Are you working on same OS on both computer, with same configuration?
Normally, GC won't start collecting object until your memory begins to be full. One thing to know,
there is an initial heap size and a maximum heap size. I'm not sure how the initial and the maximum heap size is calculated, but you can modify it this way:
(Originally posted by Jessica Sant)
Heap can be defined with the following params: -Xms<size> set initial Java heap size -Xmx<size> set maximum Java heap size
You may find somme interesting links
here and
here So, as I understand there is a corellation between your RAM and the Heap size.
Hope it helped you
[ June 21, 2002: Message edited by: Younes Essouabni ]