New to Java

Hello All,

Resource Monitor is showing java.exe consuming 351 MB (commit), 161 MB (working) and 150 MB (Private) on startup. The instance persists over time, including over system restarts. Resource Monitor shows it having a PID of 2336, which does not appear as a connection in JConsole (the only connection available is the JConsole connection itself). When the process is closed, a new process is created and the process is cloned before the existing one is destroyed.

I'm running Windows 7, and have JREs and JDKs installed (both x86 and x64 for each) in the default paths.

How can I find out what the instance of java.exe is doing / launched from / why its there at all?

Thanks,
rpk.

Edited for clarity by: swift22 on Jan 25, 2010 3:13 PM