"Armbrus, Daniel C." presuntamente escribió: >My problem is that whenever Tomcat is started, it spawns off at least 30 >processes identified only as java when I do a ps -e command, and each one of >these processes eats up about 23.1 MB of Ram, which ends up making Tomcat >take more than 900 MB of RAM when no one is even hitting the server!
They are NOT processes, they are threads, well... that linux-threads "hybrid" -don't flame me, please, I use Linux happily everyday on the server side-. And those threads are "sharing" 23 MB of ram (if all of them are under the same Java instance, use ps -axf for a fancy look of this), don´t panic. By the way, this question has been answered many times on this list. You can find useful information by browsing or searching the archives at: http://mikal.org/interests/java/tomcat/index.jsp or http://www.mail-archive.com/tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org/ or... google can give you more Francisco J. Novella [EMAIL PROTECTED]
