Hi,
> 1) How can I encourage or unfetter Tomcat so that it will allocate
> itself more memory for my Java process (what is the restriction and
> where is it handled).
You can increase the heap size of the VM running tomcat. This can be done by
adding the appropriated command line option to java.exe e.g. -mx96m in the
bin/tomcat script. Don't know if there is a better way.
This will of course not fix your problem if you have a true mem leak
although.
Bye
Chistian
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