On 15/01/2010 08:57, Abel MacAdam wrote: > > Hi, > > We manage several customers on VMWare systems. Their Tomcat installation is > used by a Content Management System written in Java. I have a question about > what happens with Tomcat when memory it has configured is not available when > necessary. > > Our Tomcat installations should use 500 MB (-Xmx516m). But when that memory > is not used, VMWare will take it away, and give it to other VMWares that are > in need of memory. This will not be a problem for a while. But at one moment > Tomcat may wish to use this memory, and VMWare will not be able to supply it > directly. What will happen in that case?
I suspect you will see slow response times until the virtual machine is allocated the memory it needs/expects. The interaction of the JVM/OS/VM is going to be complex. It is probably easier to just try it and see. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
