A quick Flex Builder rant.....

Above is the typical amount of memory usage and swap space that Flex Builder uses on my work machine.

I've seen it way higher than that on some occasions. What the hell is the thing doing to eat up that much RAM? Flex Builder consumes around 200Mb - 250Mb RAM until you enter design mode, which seems to gobble up another 50Mb - 100Mb.

It's annoying - maybe there are some JVM tweaks that will help.