Some further googling suggests VisualVM is the possible culprit for this - please ignore my post for now.
On Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 8:00:55 PM UTC+1, Emrul Islam wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to diagnose a heap usage issue in my application and it has > stumped me for a few days now. > > I am observing that the heap usage (as observed via VisualVM) steadily > grows at a rate of approximately 20Mb/minute on an entirely *idle* server. > > I decided to get back to basics - I went and built the dropwizard example > application from > https://github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/tree/master/dropwizard-example > (from GitHub as of a day ago) and ran it on my environment. I am observing > the same behaviour with it as well so it is beginning to make me question > whether this is something within dropwizard itself. > > I started the example application and left it - not a single HTTP request > has been submitted to it during my test. I see the heap growth and > automatic GC that accompanies it in VisualVM (screenshot attached). Is > this behaviour normal for drop wizard and if not, how can we go about > fixing it (I am using to seeing heap usage stay relatively flat when an > application is idle)? > > I'm running Mac OSX El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G31) and have tested 2 different > JVM versions: > > java version "1.8.0_66" > > Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_66-b17) > > Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.66-b17, mixed mode) > and > > java version "1.8.0_102" > > Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_102-b14) > > Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.102-b14, mixed mode) > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "dropwizard-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
