Craig, I did it as you said. I ran the Hello World page on the Tomcat's Servlet Examples, then kept refreshing it. The free memory is continuously going down. I will report this to Tomcat team.
Billy Ng. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 8:16 PM Subject: Re: Possible memory leak in Tomcat 4.1.10 > What you observe is what I would expect to see on pretty much any > container, on any JVM, if you are measuring memory allocated to the JVM > process. > > The reason this happens is that the JVM expands its heap dynamically as > necessary, but most JVMs are *not* programmed to return memory to the OS. > Instead, the memory will be available in Java's heap, for the creation of > new Java objects as needed. > > What you really want to check for, when looking for memory leaks, is > repeated accesses to the same URLs. If memory goes up continuously, you > probably have a leak. If not, you're probably OK. > > Doing just one or two requests tells you basically nothing useful. > > Craig > > > On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Billy Ng wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 18:53:08 -0700 > > From: Billy Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Possible memory leak in Tomcat 4.1.10 > > > > Hi folks, > > > > I am trying to find what is causing the memory leak in my app. I > > changed to use the Tomcat 4.1.10. By only hitting the Tomcat's servlet > > and jsp exampes, the free memory is already going down and never back > > up. I heard the Tomcat 4.0.4 has memory leak problem, but I do not hear > > anything about the 4.1.10. I am wondering if anyone experienced the > > same problem before. If you are using any version of Tomcat that you > > feel it is stable, please let me know. > > > > Thanks! > > > > Billy Ng > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
