How does RAM allocation work in Minecraft? From what I understand, how much RAM you allocate to Minecraft will be how much Minecraft uses? - Quora
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Minecraft consumes way more memory than the maximum allocated memory in Java. · Issue #1856 · sp614x/optifine · GitHub
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