Well you could try to create a heap-snapshot using jconsole (MBeans->com.sun.management->Hotspot-diagnostics->dumpHeap) and later view it using jhat. You should be able to follow the references to the BufferedImages.
For the first time it sounds complicated, but those free tools are a great help for everyday's problems. lg Clemens [Message sent by forum member 'linuxhippy' (linuxhippy)] http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=246537 =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".