Hi, I have a question regarding a weird behaviour of the garbage collector, maybe someone here, has more experience with it, and can answer the question. Otherwise sorry for the OT.
We have a cache for caching 1000.000 user objects along with many (some hundred thousand) not existing objects (negative cachingto prevent db requests). The cache is an array of softreferences to the objects. We used softreferences to prevent oome in case we don'T have enough ram. However now we do have enough ram - 6 Gb assigned to the java process, and System.freeMemory is always above 1 gig. However, I see that through the cache isn't full yet, and there is plenty of free memory, 500.000 objects have been garbage collected. Could it be that softreference are collected independent of available memory? If true, isn't it weird? ;-( regards Leon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
