Easy enough to test, spin up a stated - graphite container and log to that
via udp

On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 at 21:59, Emrul Islam <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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)
>>
>>
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