> Attaching Jconsole shows that there is a growth of memory and weird > spikes. Unfortunately I did not take a screen shot of the growth of > the spike over time. I'll do that when it occurs again.
Note that expected behavior for CMS is to have lots of small ups and downs as a result of young generation GC:s, and a longer period cycle of larger ups and downs that correspond to CMS kicking in with a concurrent mark/sweep phase. To get a reasonable estimate of the actual live set, you would normally look at the free memory at the end of one of the larger dips after a CMS mark/sweep phase. -- / Peter Schuller
