Exact state of committed memory in java

Question

Im curious what the exact meaning of \"committed\" memory is when the value is queried from the MemoryUsage class. That class explains it as \"committed represents the amount o

Answer 1

"Does this mean that the memory is in use by the jvm process and NOT available to other processes" would be the correct one. So its less then (or equal to) the amount of memory the OS sees as taken by the JVM process.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/management/jconsole.html (sorry no anchors to link to).