Memory usage raises when reloading a context

[Vitor Buitoni]

Every time that i reload a context (through the tomcat manager) the 
memory usage of the tomcat grows up a bit, and it doesn't go down again. 
Every time the context is reloaded the memory usage raises, until the 
jvm begins to throw OutOfMemory errors. Then i have to restart tomcat 
(of course).

Although this isn't a big problem in a production environment, where the 
applications keep running without reloads, here in our development 
environment this is becoming a problem, since every time we make a 
modification we have to reload the application.

I downloaded jvmstat to monitor the jvm, and i noticed that when an 
application is reloaded, the overall heap usage increases and the jvm gc 
moves a lot of objects to the heap's permanent area. I think that this 
might be the main problem. Because even if the old area increases, it 
will sometime get garbage collected and the memory freed. And this i 
could confirm using jvmstat. But the objects that are in the permanent 
area will never be garbage collected.

Is this behaviour normal? Or maybe it's a problem with my specific 
configuration?

I'm using tomcat 5.0.16,  sun jvm 1.4.2_03-b02, redhat 9.

Thanks!

Vitor

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