On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Brad Chesman wrote:

> I have been stress testing my servlet on a linux machine with jserv. I
> noticed that the memory usage for the java process goes up and seems to
> level off. This is fine and expected. What is weird is that the memory
> is never freed up. What might be happening here?

I guess you are looking at the jvm's memory usage (say using top),
and that never goes down - or at least I have never 
read that it should. I think malloc() is free not to give
the memory back to sbrk(), and I think the jvm uses malloc ...
Shit, I hope I am wrong ...

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