Sean A Corfield wrote: >On Wednesday, Dec 18, 2002, at 12:11 US/Pacific, Mark Johnson wrote: > > >>I like the theory, but there is one part that doesn't make sense. This >>error continued to happen until i restarted the service and more >>explicitily >>killed jrun. There are about twenty of the errors listed below. >>While it >> >> > >Yes, I've seen that situation too. Typically, there will be several >requests all getting out of memory errors at the same time (since >nearly everything in Java makes requests to the allocator). > > > >>was happening i looked at Task Manager and zeroed in on the jrun >>process and >>it was running well under the 512MB limit. Which seems to point to >>the fact >>that it was no longer taking up 512MB of memory. If that is true then >>what >> >> > >That is a little strange but I believe you (because you are not the >only person to have monitored memory usage and observed that same >behavior). I'm not entirely sure of a suitable explanation for what you >are seeing but I'm having a conversation with some folks internally >about this. My experience has been that if the system hits an out of >memory error and then you stop accessing it for a while, it finishes >garbage collecting and recovers fairly well (we've load tested CFMX to >that point and had it recover properly several times). Mind you, >watching the memory usage on Solaris we *have* seen it hit the high >water mark at the point of error. > > If you run Coldfusion on the new JRockit JVM (7.0sp1 1.4 edition) your CFMX installation will use a different type of garbage collection, which makes it a lot less likely that you'll be running out of memory. And it'll be faster too :)
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