Hello,
Before my manager insists that we switch to JRun, can any of the Tomcat developers help with a problem of an ever increasing heap size of the Tomcat java.exe. ?? (We are running Tomcat 3.2.3 and JRE1.3.1. and the IIS redirector) We are running a load test using LoadRunner scripts on some JSP and servlets that are running under Tomcat. The load is not all that heavy but the heap size of the Tomcat java.exe process keeps growing and growing. We modified the java command line to start with -Xmx128m to allow 128 MB of heap but we still max out after a day or so. We even modified one of our servlets to create a thread that runs Runtime.gc() every 30 seconds. The LoadRunner scripts just keep logging in the same 5 people via our authentication servlet so you would think memory use would level out at some point. Nothing we do seems to keep the heap size from growing. Are there known issues with Tomcat and heap size?? Doing a web search revealed numerous posts with people having similar problems so I believe there is a problem. The standard response these people receive is to increase the heap size via -Xmx But that seems like a band-aid rather than a real solution. That just delays the inevitable. Any insight as to how to keep the Tomcat process from grabbing more and more memory would be appreciated. Thanks, Keith
