excessive memory use with SSL socket

Hi,

I have a kind of vague question, sorry it's not more precise.
I'm hoping someone might be able to comment anyway.

I am working with a program which can use ordinary sockets
or SSL sockets. The program is a server. When a client
connects with an ordinary socket, memory use increases by
a few megabytes. When a client connects with an SSL socket,
memory use increase by about 35 megabytes. The difference
is enough to crash the program; it's running on small device.

The platform in question is an ARM cpu. I am using Classpath 0.98
plus JamVM 1.5.2.

I wonder if anyone else has used SSL sockets with Classpath
on any platform. Have you noticed any unusual memory use?

Thanks for any light you can shed on this problem.

Robert Dodier