Hi,
>CATALINA_OPTS=-server -Xms1g -Xmx3g
>
>and from reading previous e-mails on this list, this should set the JVM
min
>and max heap size, yet how can I verify this?
That's the correct way to set them.
Here's a simple way to verify things, as I inherently distrust Windows
performance monitoring tools:
- Write a very simple app that would allocate roughly 1 GB of RAM. For
example, by creating a 1000000 * 1000 array of Integer objects.
Integer[][] hugeArray = new Integer[1000000][1000];
for(l = 0; l < 1000000; l++)
{
for(l2 = 0; l2 < 1000; l2++)
{
hugeArray[l][l2] = new Integer(l2);
}
}
- Start the server with this app running, but not your other apps.
(Assuming ROOT, examples, tomcat-docs etc take very little runtime
memory). Make sure you trigger the above code, and see that it runs
without an OutOfMemoryError. You've just verified the minimum setting.
- Modify the above code to 3000000 * 1000, again run it, verify that it
*does* generate an OutOfMemoryError. Then you will have verified the
-Xmx setting.
- Obviously, I used perfectly nice round numbers in the above code. Due
to internal tomcat stuff, other webapps, runtime overhead, JVM overhead,
etc, the actual numbers will be lower.
- You can also verify within the program how much RAM hugeArray took up
by trying something like:
System.gc();
long memBefore = Runtime.getRuntime().totalMemory();
hugeArray = null;
System.gc();
long memAfter = Runtime.getRuntime().totalMemory();
long hugeArrayMemory = memAfter - memBefore;
- As always, stuff like the above should be run several times and
averaged, for a more reliable predictor. System.gc() is not guaranteed
to run, much less do a full GC, etc etc I assume you already know all
about that.
Maybe this will help ;)
You can also try MemoryMonitor from these guys:
http://www.spywindows.com/PAGE1/SOFTWARE.HTM
I've used it in the past, it's decent. But I trust the above approach
more.
Yoav Shapira
Millennium ChemInformatics
>
>I'm currently testing a program that takes a considerable amount of
memory,
>and after getting so many thousand requests (and storing a considerable
>amount of data in memory), the performance becomes horrible (3 to 4
times
>CPU usage, possibly due to gc looking for more memory?). I suspect the
>memory settings because when the CPU usage starts to spike, the memory
>usage
>tops off and does not appear to go up at all (when it most likely
should
>continue to go up).
>
>Suggestions appreciated!
>
>
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