I am out of ideas. But it took a little while to release the memory. Perhaps your app has a memory leak??
Anyone else care to comment ???? -----Original Message----- From: Yang Xiao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 11:43 AM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: Question about memory Hi, I have development set to false and fork to true, tomcat still doesn't release the memory, any ideas? Thanks, Yang -----Original Message----- From: Randall Svancara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 11:32 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Question about memory Just a silly question, but don't you also need to perform some additional production configuration in your web.xml by setting fork equal to true and developement equal to false. It explains it on this page here: http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/jasper-howto.html#Production %20Configuration I made some similar modifications and I noticed that tomcat started to release the memory when the server was not as busy. Randall -----Original Message----- From: Yang Xiao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 9:07 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Question about memory Hi list, I have 3 Tomcat 5.0.19 instances running with Apache 2.019 and JK2. I did a simple load testing with JMeter last night and stopped it just before I went home, so right now there's no incoming request whatsoever, but TOP still shows heavy memory usage and swapping, it looks like even though the load has subsided, Tomcat has not released the memory, what can I do except restart the Tomcat instances to release the memory? I'm not sure if this is a valid question, so I apologize if I seem to be lack of some basic understanding of how things work. Thanks in advance. Also the tomcats are started with -Xms64 -Xmx256 Yang Here's the top output 11:01:35 up 2 days, 15:28, 2 users, load average: 0.65, 0.20, 0.07 381 processes: 379 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: cpu user nice system irq softirq iowait idle total 1.0% 0.0% 56.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 42.7% Mem: 513292k av, 505136k used, 8156k free, 0k shrd, 64872k buff 280548k active, 208500k inactive Swap: 1044216k av, 528888k used, 515328k free 7388k cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 8333 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:02 0 jsvc 8335 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:03 0 jsvc 8337 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:02 0 jsvc 8338 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:00 0 jsvc 8340 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:00 0 jsvc 8570 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8571 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8572 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8573 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8589 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8596 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8601 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8604 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:02 0 jsvc 8607 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:02 0 jsvc 8610 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8612 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8616 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8624 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8631 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8633 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8646 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8684 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:02 0 jsvc 8689 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8692 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:02 0 jsvc 8695 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8697 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8699 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8700 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8703 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8705 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:00 0 jsvc 8707 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8709 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8714 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8717 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8720 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8721 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:00 0 jsvc 8726 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8729 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8731 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8734 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8739 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8741 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8744 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8747 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8751 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8755 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:00 0 jsvc 8758 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:02 0 jsvc 8761 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8764 tomcat 16 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:01 0 jsvc 8926 tomcat 15 0 203M 158M 80744 S 0.0 31.5 0:00 0 jsvc --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
