"Marco Rossi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
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> Hi all,
>
> I've searched in list archive and I've found a discussion about tomcat 
> memory  occupation [1].  I sucessfully deployed my first production web 
> app using jsvc on Fedora Core 4, to allow tomcat on port 80.
>
> Using tomcat 5.5.12 and java 1.4.2_10 ( 1.5 is not usable due to a 
> javamail compatibily issue) I noticed that memory used is never released 
> back to the system after the requests have been satisfied. It dosen't seem 
> to me this is a nice behaviour but googlig I've seen someone answer this 
> is the a well-known issue.
>

For performance reasons, Tomcat tends to hold onto the memory that it 
allocates, and reuses it.

> Is there anyoune who can point out some reccomdantions or hints about 
> tomcat memory management ?
>

Since you are on Linux, you might want to look into using the APR Connector 
instead of the Java Connector.  This should reduce the number of threads 
that are allocated by Tomcat, and hence the amount of memory that they need. 
Like with any configuration change, your mileage may very ;-).

> Thanks,
> Marco
>
> [1] Question about memory 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tomcat-user&m=108385720903328&w=2
>
>
>
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