Rainer Jung, thanks for ur reply. I understand that JVM will use lots of memory besides heap.
but I didn't see that the gap between the "heap" size and total memory size can be stable. it keeps on growing. I list the pmap result below. there are lots of unknow memory allocated. Is there any tool can list all memory allocated by jvm ? 4818: /usr/java/bin/java -Xmx512m -D_TOMCAT -server -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/op 00010000 64K r-x-- /opt/jdk1.5.0_07/bin/java 0002E000 16K rwx-- /opt/jdk1.5.0_07/bin/java 00032000 33808K rwx-- [ heap ] C82F8000 32K rw--R [ anon ] C83F8000 32K rw--R [ anon ] C84F8000 32K rw--R [ anon ] C85F8000 32K rw--R [ anon ] C86F8000 32K rw--R [ anon ] C87F8000 32K rw--R [ anon ] C88F8000 32K rw--R [ anon ] C89F8000 32K rw--R [ anon ] C8AF8000 32K rw--R [ anon ] C8BF8000 32K rw--R [ anon ] C8CF6000 40K rw--R [ anon ] C8DF8000 32K rw--R [ anon ] C8EF8000 32K rw--R [ anon ] C8FF8000 32K rw--R [ anon ] C90F8000 32K rw--R [ anon ] C91F8000 32K rw--R [ anon ] C92F6000 40K rw--R [ anon ] C93F6000 40K rw--R [ anon ] C94F6000 40K rw--R [ anon ] C95F6000 40K rw--R [ anon ] C96F8000 32K rw--R [ anon ] C97F8000 32K rw--R [ anon ] C98F8000 32K rw--R [ anon ] C99F8000 32K rw--R [ anon ] C9AF6000 40K rw--R [ anon ] C9BF6000 40K rw--R [ anon ] C9CF6000 40K 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/opt/jdk1.5.0_07/jre/lib/sparc/server/libjvm.so FF028000 64K rwx-- /opt/jdk1.5.0_07/jre/lib/sparc/server/libjvm.so FF040000 8K rwx-- [ anon ] FF050000 8K r-x-- /platform/sun4u/lib/libmd5_psr.so.1 FF062000 8K rwx-- /platform/sun4u/lib/libmd5_psr.so.1 FF070000 8K r-x-- /lib/libmd5.so.1 FF082000 8K rwx-- /lib/libmd5.so.1 FF090000 32K r-x-- /lib/libuutil.so.1 FF0A8000 8K rwx-- /lib/libuutil.so.1 FF0B0000 8K r-x-- /lib/libdoor.so.1 FF0C2000 8K rwx-- /lib/libdoor.so.1 FF0D0000 96K r-x-- /lib/libscf.so.1 FF0F8000 8K rwx-- /lib/libscf.so.1 FF100000 584K r-x-- /lib/libnsl.so.1 FF1A2000 40K rwx-- /lib/libnsl.so.1 FF1AC000 24K rwx-- /lib/libnsl.so.1 FF1C0000 8K rwx-- [ anon ] FF1D0000 16K r-x-- /lib/libm.so.1 FF1E2000 8K rwx-- /lib/libm.so.1 FF1F0000 48K r-x-- /usr/lib/libCrun.so.1 FF20A000 8K rwx-- /usr/lib/libCrun.so.1 FF20C000 16K rwx-- /usr/lib/libCrun.so.1 FF220000 8K r---- [ anon ] FF230000 48K r-x-- /lib/libsocket.so.1 FF24C000 8K rwx-- /lib/libsocket.so.1 FF260000 8K r-x-- /usr/lib/libsched.so.1 FF270000 8K r-x-- /platform/sun4u-us3/lib/libc_psr.so.1 FF280000 864K r-x-- /lib/libc.so.1 FF368000 32K rwx-- /lib/libc.so.1 FF370000 8K rwx-- /lib/libc.so.1 FF380000 8K rwx-- [ anon ] FF390000 24K rwx-- [ anon ] FF3A0000 8K r-x-- /lib/libdl.so.1 FF3B0000 176K r-x-- /lib/ld.so.1 FF3EC000 8K rwx-- /lib/ld.so.1 FF3EE000 8K rwx-- /lib/ld.so.1 FF3F8000 16K r-x-- /lib/libthread.so.1 FFB80000 24K ----- [ anon ] FFBEC000 80K rw--- [ stack ] total 684104K On 11/21/06, Rainer Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Usually the term heap is used for the sum of the new space, one of the two semi spaces (both usually around a couple of MB) and tenured. The size of each of these can be viewed e.g. with jconsole, which comes with your JVM. Additional memory is used for perm (class data), which should generally be in the reange of 10-60MB, depending on how many classes you have. Further memory is needed for thread stacks, native libs and in Java 1.5 for class sharing meta data. You can have a look at the native side of things by the Solaris command pmap. On Solaris you should not use top. Use prstat instead. Does the gap stabilize after some time? Regards, Rainer xu cai schrieb: > hi Steffen, > > thanks for ur reply. I still have questions on that, see that in-line. > > On 11/21/06, Steffen Heil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> > Description : >> > right after system(tomcat) is started, the "top" command show >> > that tomcat process will use 210M memory, the heap size >> > (using Jprofiler) is 58m/20m(total/used). there is a 150M gap >> > between total process memory size and java heap size. >> >> There needs to be some memory for the JVM as well as your classes. >> Furthermore GCs may keep two copies of the youngest generation part of >> the >> heap. > > > Yes, some memory is needed for JVM and classes, also GC keep copies of > young > generation part of heap. > > Since the heap memory is managed well by GC, used heap memory grows from > 20M > to 160M gracefully and come back to 20M. > But my question is why the total memory size of the process (tomcat) grows > up from 230M to more than 520M. there is no significant memory grow in > java > heap, why the total memory can grow up almost 300M ? > >> So my questions are: >> > 1, what is the difference between java process memory size >> > and java heap size ? why can it be 150M in right after tomcat >> > is started ? >> > 2, why the gap between top can heap can grows from 150M to >> > 320M, where does 170M more memory gone ? >> >> I assume it was needed in between. >> However, memory allocated by the JVM not not neccessarily lost. Not being >> used that may be swapped out. >> >> Regards, >> Steffen >> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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