> On 2025 Jul 29, at 08:20, Mircea Butmalai <mircea.butma...@radcom.ro> wrote:
> 
> I have analyzed java memory heap for approximately default tomcat 10.1.43 
> installation.
> Approximately default tomcat 10.1.43 installation means:
> Installation of tomcat is done on CentOS 9 with uname output as:
> Linux centos9dev1.local 5.14.0-533.el9.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Nov 
> 22 15:05:06 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> Java environment is Eclipse Temurin JDK 21.0.7
> Apache Tomcat 10.1.43 archive tar.gz obtained from official tomcat site and 
> installed under special folder inside /opt specific to our project
> No .bat files in tomcat bin folder
> no examples and docs webapps, only default ROOT, manager and host-manager 
> webapps are delivered from official tomcat archive. No other custom webapps 
> are present in this heap memory test.
> tomcat file conf/tomcat-users.xml contains user with roles manager-script, 
> manager-status, manager-jmx, manager-gui
> Custom startup / shutdown / check bash scripts that basically launch 
> catalina.sh with custom java options.
> The check script verifies tomcat process and if ok it checks using manager 
> URL /manager/text/serverinfo in order to decide if tomcat is ok. The client 
> http access is done using system application curl.
> These custom scripts launch process under custom created system user and all 
> tomcat and java files are owned by this custom system user
> 
> The heap memory analysis was done as follows:
> Due to the fact that server info manager URL is already accessed by our 
> custom check script at a rate of 0.1 requests per second it was decided that 
> first test was to inject a bigger rate (5 requests per second) into tomcat 
> server from this manager URL /manager/text/serverinfo. Only this requests 
> where inside tomcat.
> Before injecting these requests a jstat process was started in order to 
> monitor heap memory at a rate of 5s. So we have a text file output from this 
> java application that offers stats about java memory collections.
> Data was collected for a duration of 265k seconds = aprox. 3 days
> 
> Graphical representation of EU (eden space utilization in KB), OU (old space 
> utilization KB) and MU (metaspace utilization KB) are attached inside this 
> email.


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> The questions are:
> Why we have a constant increase for OU during this test.
> The slope is significant and should be zero during this kind of test at least 
> after some reasonable time period like some minutes.
> It is there a problem? When the slope is going to change to zero?
> It seems like there is a very little slope even for MU which increases from 
> 16793.6 KB at 39k seconds to 16809 KB at 265k seconds. (diff is 15.4 KB). The 
> increase here is linearly distributed over the time interval. It is a problem 
> even here?


Do you know if garbage collection occurred during this interval? Do you have GC 
logging enabled?

  - Chuck

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