I went through this as well.  You'll find that Vadim and Lajos' advice
is correct.  Set the parameters correctly and you'll see it stabilize at a
particular size.  There is a performance doc in the documentation
which describes some of the parameters to set.

                                                                ...Peter


Rogier Peters writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > We've been running cocoon for some time now, and we really like it, but we keep 
 >having problems with memory usage. 
 > We're running on a dual pII-700 with 1Gb memory and windows 2000 server. I just 
 >upgraded from jdk1.3.1_01 to 1.3.1_03, using the hotspot jvm, and from cocoon 2.0.1 
 >to 2.0.2 but is doesn't seem to solve the problems.
 > The site we're developing is largish, about 1000 pages, and probably very (too?) 
 >transformation intensive. A typical page transforms the aggregate of about 5 
 >elements, which each come from pipelines that do a couple of transform on data that 
 >is retrieved from an xml database with a custom Source.
 > 
 > The problem is that with each page, looking at the Windows Task Manager, memory use 
 >increases by about 25M and although in the processes window java.exe will reduce 
 >memory now and again, system memory use stays high. 
 > 
 > I played around with the jvm -Xmx option, and with cocoon.xconf heapsize and cached 
 >objects, but that didn't help. I was wondering whether anyone had the same problems 
 >with cocoon, and I am of course very interested in solutions, tweaks, or 
 >configuration options that I may have overlooked.
 > 
 > Regards,
 > 
 > Rogier Peters
 > 
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