> From: Robert Harper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I've seen the memory rise and fall so if the GC releases > memory, it should be returned to the OS.
... at some point, assuming the GC is capable of compacting the heap to give an entirely free block of memory that can be returned to the OS, and assuming that (in Windows) the OS is under memory pressure and is requesting processes to free what memory they can. I have to say I've never observed a JVM returning memory to the OS, even under quite severe OS memory pressure. Equally I may not have been looking when it did! - Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]