Re: [OT] Re: Tomcat 8/Redhat Linux 6.6 /Kernal 2.6.32 - Memory Won't Release

2017-03-20 Thread tomcat
On 20.03.2017 09:36, Olaf Kock wrote: Am 20.03.2017 um 09:30 schrieb André Warnier (tomcat): One may wonder in fact : if when resizing the Heap downwards, the JVM is anyway not going to give the surplus memory back to the OS, then why bother ? what is the surplus ex-Heap memory then used intere

Re: [OT] Re: Tomcat 8/Redhat Linux 6.6 /Kernal 2.6.32 - Memory Won't Release

2017-03-20 Thread Olaf Kock
Am 20.03.2017 um 09:30 schrieb André Warnier (tomcat): > One may wonder in fact : if when resizing the Heap downwards, the JVM > is anyway not going to give the surplus memory back to the OS, then > why bother ? what is the surplus ex-Heap memory then used > interestingly for, by the JVM ? There'

Re: [OT] Re: Tomcat 8/Redhat Linux 6.6 /Kernal 2.6.32 - Memory Won't Release

2017-03-20 Thread tomcat
On 19.03.2017 20:33, Olaf Kock wrote: Am 19.03.2017 um 13:37 schrieb André Warnier (tomcat): On 17.03.2017 14:54, Christopher Schultz wrote: Note that Java *never* gives any memory back to the OS, even when the heap-usage goes down. This is a Java thing, not a Tomcat thing. I did not know

Re: [OT] Re: Tomcat 8/Redhat Linux 6.6 /Kernal 2.6.32 - Memory Won't Release

2017-03-19 Thread Olaf Kock
Am 19.03.2017 um 13:37 schrieb André Warnier (tomcat): > On 17.03.2017 14:54, Christopher Schultz wrote: > >> >> Note that Java *never* gives any memory back to the OS, even when the >> heap-usage goes down. This is a Java thing, not a Tomcat thing. > > I did not know that (*), and I have never s

[OT] Re: Tomcat 8/Redhat Linux 6.6 /Kernal 2.6.32 - Memory Won't Release

2017-03-19 Thread tomcat
On 17.03.2017 14:54, Christopher Schultz wrote: Note that Java *never* gives any memory back to the OS, even when the heap-usage goes down. This is a Java thing, not a Tomcat thing. I did not know that (*), and I have never seen this mentioned explicitly in any Java documentation (not that I