Jake - you are a genius! I reverted back to 1.4.0_03 and the memory leak problem seems to have gone away. I am heavily dependent on StringBuffers for generating XML, so this bug was really causing problems.
Thanks for your time! Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Kjome" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 11:28 AM Subject: Re: Memory Woes > > Possibly this StringBufffer.toString() memory leak bug in j2sdk1.4.1? What > JDK do you use? j2sdk1.4.0 doesn't suffer from this issue... > http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4724129.html > > Jake > > At 03:05 PM 3/30/2003 -0500, you wrote: > >Actually, this is 100% servlet-powered... no JSP pages are used. Anyone > >else know of any issues? > > > >Mark > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 8:17 AM > >Subject: Memory Woes > > > > > >Hello, > > > >Has anyone had any memory issues when running Tomcat in a production > >environment where it stays up for weeks? I have a webapp that is fairly > >intense, using the Struts framework (which is great, by the way!) with > >streaming data to sockets and database logging to mySQL. I have several of > >these apps running in one Tomcat installation. > > > >My problem is that memory usage keeps steadily creeping up on me until I > >start > >getting the dreaded java.lang.OutOfMemoryError (or something like that). > > > >I bumped up the memory settings for the JVM memory settings, which simply > >delays the problem, but it still happens. (-Xmx... ) > > > >I have also profiled the application, and found that after garbage > >collection > >all of my objects go back to the original usage levels (as far as > >instances). None of them are continually appending to a string or anything > >like that... mainly just state information. > > > >I'm not sure where to go from here - having to occasionally restart Tomcat > >once a month is not a workable solution for me. > > > >Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated! > > > >Mark > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]