Decreasing Memory Usage

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Hi guys! We use JIRA at work (very happily!), and I do a bit of programming on the side, so decided to set up a JIRA instance on a hosted cloud server.

Unfortunately, I don't have the resources to afford a high-memory production server, so I'm making due with a 768MB CentOS 5.5 box.

What's strange is that even this setup doesn't seem to have the ability to run JIRA reliably! Here's the memory prior to startup:

{code}
***@vps [~]# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 768 332 435 0 5 18
-/+ buffers/cache: 308 459
Swap: 0 0 0
{code}

And here's the memory after startup:

{code}
***@vps [~]# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 768 754 13 0 0 4
-/+ buffers/cache: 749 18
Swap: 0 0 0
{code}

I know that 1GB RAM is recommended for a production server, but I have a single project, with a single issue, and it will often crash 5-10 minutes after startup. I'm running the standalone version 4.3.4. 440MB seems high for a single instance with practically no content.

Is there any way to decrease the memory footprint? Are there any non-essential plugins I can disable? Should I be running the Tomcat drop-in version instead of the standalone? Thanks!
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