On 14/02/2011 07:47, Bilal Ashraf wrote: > > Hi, > > - I have written a servlet that reads the request from the client, process > the request, produce the > response and then write the response to > the client. > - I have deployed the servlet on tomcat 6.0.29. > - I sent 10 batches of 100 requests each to the servlet, all the requests > entertained successfully. > > The problem is, tomcat 6.0.29 does not relase the memory of requests and > responses even though i forcefully call the garbage collector from the > profiler. When looked using the profiler, there were large byte arrays held > by tomcat 6.0.29 code. In these byte arrays, there were request and > responses that were read from client and sent in response. The memory of > these request and response did not release even though i left the system > running for 2-3 days.
This is by design. The buffers are re-cycled and re-used rather than thrown away are re-created to a) reduce GC, b) reduce delays. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
