Howdy, You need to keep profiling until you find memory leaks and fix them, or redesign your app to use less memory, or increase the amount available to the JVM, or restart tomcat more frequently, or some combination of the above.
Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 8:17 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Memory Woes > >Hello, > >Has anyone had any memory issues when running Tomcat in a production >environment where it stays up for weeks? I have a webapp that is fairly >intense, using the Struts framework (which is great, by the way!) with >streaming data to sockets and database logging to mySQL. I have several of >these apps running in one Tomcat installation. > >My problem is that memory usage keeps steadily creeping up on me until I >start >getting the dreaded java.lang.OutOfMemoryError (or something like that). > >I bumped up the memory settings for the JVM memory settings, which simply >delays the problem, but it still happens. (-Xmx... ) > >I have also profiled the application, and found that after garbage >collection >all of my objects go back to the original usage levels (as far as >instances). None of them are continually appending to a string or anything >like that... mainly just state information. > >I'm not sure where to go from here - having to occasionally restart Tomcat >once a month is not a workable solution for me. > >Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated! > >Mark > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This e-mail, including any attachments, is a confidential business communication, and may contain information that is confidential, proprietary and/or privileged. This e-mail is intended only for the individual(s) to whom it is addressed, and may not be saved, copied, printed, disclosed or used by anyone else. If you are not the(an) intended recipient, please immediately delete this e-mail from your computer system and notify the sender. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]