> From: Carl [mailto:c...@etrak-plus.com] > Subject: Re: Tomcat dies suddenly > > if I understand it correctly, Tomcat is (mostly) running in > the heap and should, therefore, not be requiring more memory
Not necessarily. The real memory used by a Java process can continue to climb until all the pages assigned to the heap and associated spaces have actually been touched. That might not happen for quite some time, especially in PermGen. > However, that is slowly being eaten away by something. > I would have expected the usage to flatten out and then > fluctuate about that number. This implies a memory > leak someplace in the system. Probably not. As Dan explained, that's normal file caching behavior. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
