I did it with Xmx256M and it does indeed seem to flatten (at about 300 MB). 
Also with Xmx150M 
it flattened at about 260M.
So, I will try to investigate further, why and under what conditions it 
does fail..

Klaus


Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2012 13:18:58 UTC-5 schrieb nonlinear:
>
> The default starting option for JBT is "aggressive 
> heap": -XX:+AggressiveHeap
> This is meant for the use when you are optimizing. When backtesting, 
> forward-testing, and trading, you may want to use a less aggressive option, 
> for example:
> -Xmx=256M
>
> Can you try that and see if you still observe the same issue as you 
> reported? Thanks.
>
> On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Klaus <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>>wrote:
>
>> Well, what I observe is that when I run a strategy with JBT, it (of 
>> course allocates memory), when next thing I run a different strategy more 
>> memory is allocated. 
>> I just tried it with the sample data and the distribution JBT. Only 
>> change was to create 20 copies of the Sample strategy.  It rapidly builds 
>> up from 250 to about 350 MB when more strategies are run. 
>> There the curve flattens at some point. 
>> However it is a small data set. I have the problem that if I do the same 
>> with my installation and my dataset  I see a much larger initial 
>> memory allocation and actually a similar build up of memory allocation. 
>> Thus, at some point it hits the wall and I have to restart JBT to run more 
>> strategies. This seems to be in line with the aymptotic build up of memory 
>> use.
>>
>> Klaus
>>
>>
>> Am Montag, 3. Dezember 2012 09:27:58 UTC-5 schrieb nonlinear:
>>>
>>> Charts can (potentially) use enormous amounts of memory, because all of 
>>> the historical data with regards to prices and indicators is preserved. For 
>>> that reason, in JBT, you can show charts only one at a time. That is, the 
>>> chart becomes available after you run a backtest for a given strategy A. If 
>>> subsequently you run a backtest for strategy B, the chart for B becomes 
>>> available, and the chart for A is no longer in memory.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Klaus <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  It seems that 
>>>> a) if I start a back test of a different strategy, I can no longer 
>>>> display an earlier chart. 
>>>>     (says: run the strategy first)
>>>> b) on the other hand, it seems that if I run a number of different 
>>>> strategy, the memory
>>>> is later on not (completely) freed. - I thought this would be the 
>>>> charting data. 
>>>>
>>>> While both make from their respective point of view sense, both at the 
>>>> same time do not 
>>>> make much sense. - Or is the loss of memory s.th. different?
>>>>
>>>> Klaus
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