Re: Websphere and Dark Matter

2007-01-23 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007, John Haxby wrote about "Re: Websphere and Dark Matter": > Nadav Har'El wrote: > Are you implying that the process memory shrinks, that memory is > returned to the kernel? I didn't read the page you referenced that way. > I know that if I a

Re: Websphere and Dark Matter

2007-01-22 Thread John Haxby
Nadav Har'El wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2007, Rollo du Pre wrote about "Re: Websphere and Dark Matter": I was hoping it would, yes. Does websphere not release memory back to the OS when it not longer needs it? I'm concerned that if the memory spiked for some reason (index

Re: Websphere and Dark Matter

2007-01-18 Thread Rollo du Pre
Thanks for this information, it was very useful. Rol. Nadav Har'El wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2007, Rollo du Pre wrote about "Re: Websphere and Dark Matter": I was hoping it would, yes. Does websphere not release memory back to the OS when it not longer needs it? I'm concerne

Re: Websphere and Dark Matter

2007-01-16 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007, Rollo du Pre wrote about "Re: Websphere and Dark Matter": > I was hoping it would, yes. Does websphere not release memory back to > the OS when it not longer needs it? I'm concerned that if the memory > spiked for some reason (indexing a large d

Re: Websphere and Dark Matter

2007-01-16 Thread Rollo du Pre
Hi John, I was hoping it would, yes. Does websphere not release memory back to the OS when it not longer needs it? I'm concerned that if the memory spiked for some reason (indexing a large document) then that would hamper the rest of the OS because it'd hold on to far more memory than is need

Re: Websphere and Dark Matter

2007-01-16 Thread John Haxby
Rollo du Pre wrote: We have a scenario where a web search app using Lucene causes Websphere 5.1 allocated memory to grow but not shrink. JProfiler shows the heap shrinks back ok, leaving the JVM with over 1GB allocated to the jvm but only 400MB in use. Websphere does not perform a level 2 garbage

Websphere and Dark Matter

2007-01-16 Thread Rollo du Pre
Hi, Has anyone encountered significant amounts of Websphere Dark Matter generation when using Lucene? We have a scenario where a web search app using Lucene causes Websphere 5.1 allocated memory to grow but not shrink. JProfiler shows the heap shrinks back ok, leaving the JVM with over 1GB alloc