>Last week we did some heavy testing on the web service and we >discovered that we cannot send documents bigger than 1.5Mb. Axis >fails with a OutOfMemory exception.
How are you encoding the file you're sending? Is it some sort of SOAP attachment, or is it an element in the query? Your most direct fix is to increase JVM memory, as you found via the -Xmx flag. 32 megs is just not a lot of heap. I've noticed Axis is not terribly memory efficient - using 20 megs of RAM to handle 1 meg of data seems about typical. Things got a lot better when I configured Axis to not send xsi:type data when generating messages. I don't know if that made Axis in general more efficient, or it was just the fact that the XML is smaller. The title of your message is "memory leaks", but your experience is really about memory inefficiency. Do you also have evidence of an actual memory leak, something where memory is not returned after the call is over? PS - I've noticed that axis-user has about 95% questions and 5% answers. That's too bad! I'm going to try answering questions I know the answers to, maybe others can as well? I bet there's a market for Axis consultants out there :-)
