Hello, i have testet some Servlets, and i'm prof that I give all the Readers and Writes free, when a error occurs, so my Servlets are mostly memory leak free. So, when I make a big traffic to my servlets, the memory usage of Tomcat will rise extremly, and after that it won't give these memory free.And so the Server will become slow. Is that a error in Tomcat, or must I set some enviroment in the Tomcat server.xml or so ? I have build some extra Commands in the Serverlet to call System.gc() or System.runFinalization(), but no changes will occurse. I have read about the VM that in some VM it's normal that they give not all the memory free. W. Klum told me that you can explzit turn the JIT Compiler of , but how could I do this ? I have test it all with JDK1.3 , JDK1.3.02 (with CLIENT VM , and SERVER VM), on Linux Suse 7.1 and Linux Mandrake 8.0 with Tomcat 3.2.2b2 with ajp12 and ajp13 Protocol over mod_jk, 98 MB RAM and Apache 1.3.17-10/mod_ssl2.7.1-0 and apache 1.3.19-3/mod_ssl 2.8.2-5. Every time I get the same result. The server will slow done with lot's of memory usage by Tomcat, the only way to resolve it is to restart tomcat. I have produce the high traffic with making a refresh very often. Has someone the same error, or is it still only a error on my system ? Please help me, it's urgent, thank you for inconvenience, Michael ------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]