I have tomcat, running through apache on a pentium machine with 32mb of ram
running debain linux.  Normally this machine would be fine for serving a
few small pages.  It even does well with tomcat.  But there's something
that concerns me going on:

I have 7 contexts, and 4 virtual hosts setup, maybe that might explain it,
but tomcat just seems to like to allocate a bunch of memory for a bunch of
forks:

24269 daniell   19   0  1212 1212   688 R       0 33.6  1.8   0:23 top
12774 root       1   0 24180  18M  2064 S       0  3.8 30.2 229:35 java
12461 root       0   0 24180  18M  2064 S       0  3.7 30.2 266:03 java
12765 root       1   0 24180  18M  2064 S       0  3.7 30.2 141:43 java
11186 root       0   0 24180  18M  2064 S       0  3.4 30.2 396:17 java
12292 root       0   0 24180  18M  2064 S       0  3.3 30.2 313:36 java
12422 root       1   0 24180  18M  2064 S       0  3.3 30.2 301:51 java
11181 root       1   0 24180  18M  2064 S       0  3.2 30.2 336:00 java
12770 root       0   0 24180  18M  2064 S       0  3.2 30.2 223:01 java
22851 root       0   0 24180  18M  2064 S       0  3.2 30.2 129:10 java
12424 root       0   0 24180  18M  2064 S       0  3.1 30.2 328:19 java
12773 root       1   0 24180  18M  2064 S       0  3.1 30.2 219:35 java
12294 root       1   0 24180  18M  2064 S       0  2.9 30.2 315:20 java
12299 root       1   0 24180  18M  2064 S       0  2.9 30.2 340:21 java
12428 root       0   0 24180  18M  2064 S       0  2.8 30.2 320:21 java
12464 root       0   0 24180  18M  2064 S       0  2.8 30.2 290:18 java
12293 root       1   0 24180  18M  2064 S       0  2.7 30.2 326:51 java

I have never seen anything so scarry.  tomcat doesn't run like this on
other systems... and its not even being asked to do anything in the last
hour or so.

Is this expected?  what can people do to limit this sort of thing? please
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oh yeah this is 3.2.1

see also ps ax output:
11121 ?        S      0:24 [java]
11148 ?        S      1:08 [java]
11149 ?        S     13:54 [java]
11150 ?        S      0:09 [java]
11151 ?        S      0:26 [java]
11152 ?        S    175:58 [java]
11153 ?        S      0:00 [java]
11154 ?        S      0:00 [java]
11155 ?        S      0:31 [java]
11156 ?        S      4:23 [java]
11157 ?        S      0:06 [java]
11158 ?        S      0:04 [java]
11159 ?        S      0:05 [java]
11160 ?        S      0:05 [java]
11161 ?        S      0:05 [java]
11162 ?        S      0:05 [java]
11163 ?        S      0:05 [java]
11164 ?        S      0:04 [java]
11165 ?        S      0:05 [java]
11166 ?        S      0:05 [java]
11167 ?        S      0:05 [java]
11168 ?        S      0:05 [java]
11169 ?        S      0:00 [java]
11170 ?        S      0:00 [java]
11171 ?        S      0:00 [java]
11172 ?        S      0:00 [java]
11173 ?        S      0:00 [java]
11174 ?        S      0:00 [java]
11175 ?        S      0:00 [java]
11176 ?        S      0:00 [java]
11177 ?        S      0:00 [java]
11178 ?        S      0:00 [java]
11179 ?        S      0:06 [java]
11180 ?        S    358:55 [java]
11181 ?        S    336:47 [java]
11182 ?        S    345:22 [java]
11183 ?        S    376:11 [java]
11184 ?        S    372:19 [java]
11185 ?        S    366:28 [java]
11186 ?        S    397:02 [java]
11187 ?        S    682:53 [java]
11188 ?        S    755:39 [java]
11189 ?        S    1967:50 [java]
11190 ?        S      0:06 [java]
11193 ?        S      0:31 [java]
12290 ?        S    311:15 [java]
12291 ?        S    317:25 [java]
12292 ?        S    314:21 [java]
12293 ?        S    327:37 [java]
12294 ?        S    316:06 [java]
12295 ?        S    315:46 [java]
12296 ?        S    310:09 [java]
12297 ?        S    317:27 [java]
12298 ?        S    311:17 [java]
12299 ?        S    341:05 [java]
12419 ?        S    299:30 [java]
12420 ?        S    306:20 [java]
12421 ?        S    316:25 [java]
12422 ?        S    302:37 [java]
12423 ?        S    318:37 [java]
12424 ?        S    329:06 [java]
12425 ?        S    313:38 [java]
12426 ?        S    315:40 [java]
12427 ?        S    324:35 [java]
12428 ?        S    321:07 [java]
12460 ?        S    266:20 [java]
12461 ?        S    266:46 [java]
12462 ?        S    277:03 [java]
12463 ?        S    273:58 [java]
12464 ?        S    291:02 [java]
12465 ?        S    301:17 [java]
12466 ?        S    301:07 [java]
12467 ?        S    295:56 [java]
12468 ?        R    310:28 [java]
12469 ?        S    304:12 [java]
12765 ?        S    142:30 [java]
12766 ?        S    137:16 [java]
12767 ?        S    180:14 [java]
12768 ?        S    173:41 [java]
12769 ?        S    224:51 [java]
12770 ?        S    223:47 [java]
12771 ?        S    225:57 [java]
12772 ?        S    217:16 [java]
12773 ?        S    220:19 [java]
12774 ?        S    230:19 [java]
22842 ?        S      0:00 [java]
22843 ?        S      0:00 [java]
22844 ?        S      0:00 [java]
22845 ?        S      0:00 [java]
22846 ?        S      0:12 [java]
22847 ?        S      0:41 [java]
22848 ?        S      0:52 [java]
22849 ?        S    126:07 [java]
22850 ?        S    135:34 [java]
22851 ?        S    129:56 [java]

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