Memory Leak

Nigel Wade nmw at ion.le.ac.uk
Thu Apr 7 10:04:51 UTC 2005


donnie wrote:
> Hey!
> 
> I am running Fedora Core 3 and I seem to be having problem with Tomcat. I am using jakarta-tomcat-5.5.7.
> 
> When I run top I can see that the java process slowly but steadily increases the memory usage %.
> 
> When I check free I can see that -/+ buffers/cache:  also decreases. After some time it takes for ever to log on to the machine since it has so little memory left.
> 
> If I shut down the tomcat process all allocated memory is released but the whole chain starts over again when I restart it.
> 
> Any ideas??
> 
> Thanks a lot!  //Tom
> 
> 

Tomcat is just a servlet container. The resources it uses itself are fairly 
static. If a servlet within Tomcat has a memory leak then you need to 
address that problem. It's not something either Fedora or Tomcat can do for you.

-- 
Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
             University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
E-mail :    nmw at ion.le.ac.uk
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