Dante,
>When tomcat starts, the jvm creates a child-process. the child process
>then creates up to 19 child-processes itself. Each of these processes
>is taking the same amount of memory, i.e. 14MB! This is ridiculous, my
>app is a small one and there is no way it could demand that much memory.
>With 20 processes demanding 14MB of memory its bringing my 256MB machine
>down to its knees.
Pretty much all of this 14MB is *shared*. This means alle these processes
use the same, single 14MB.
Type 'free' to see how much memory is really used or free.
Bye,
Edwin Martin.
