For performance reasons, Tomcat tends to hold onto the memory that it allocates, and reuses it.
Interesting enough: but when memory is needed no more, shoud it be collected out and brought it back to the system as available memory, or is is a normal situation that memory once obtained is never released by tomcat ? I'm seeing that free memory is constantly lowering, even there is a no connection to be served, as if garbage collection is never performed. Thanks, Marco --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP.