Re: Centos 5 OS not releasing memory Tomcat6

2009-05-29 Thread msweeney
Here's the /etc/sysctl.conf parameters that I've started with: vm.dirty_writeback_centisecs = 100 vm.dirty_expire_centisecs = 100 vm.pagecache = 1 10 30 Since this server is taking Production traffic, we'll need to what for a window to test this. I'll let you know how it works out. If the two

Re: Centos 5 OS not releasing memory Tomcat6

2009-05-28 Thread msweeney
I'm doing now is looking into the sysctl.conf parameters that will flush the cache, sort of like Oracle. Regards, Marc Sweeney Maurizio Rottin wrote: > > 2009/5/28 msweeney : >> >> Tomcat version 6 >> Apache 2.2.3 >> Centos 5.2 >> VMware 2.5 >> 2 VP

Centos 5 OS not releasing memory Tomcat6

2009-05-28 Thread msweeney
Tomcat version 6 Apache 2.2.3 Centos 5.2 VMware 2.5 2 VPU's 4G Memory Guest Memory usage is on a avg 122 MB and Host Memory is at 3.31 G so we know it's not the balloon driver. Problem statement: I understand as a SysAdmin that the JVM loves to grab all the memory resources as it can, sort of l