Thanks guys for the helpful feedback. I am not sure if my latest corrupted markup bug could be a biproduct of this memory mauling.
yes I am in development mode on a live deployment under tomcat and mysql jetty jdbc it happened on the live server... so I was cussin a few over it Here is a blip of my plugin config in my pom.xml Do you think this is insufficient? Do I need to ass a permgen thing? <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <source>1.6</source> <target>1.6</target> <optimize>true</optimize> </configuration> </plugin> <!-- Run the application using "mvn jetty:run" --> <plugin> <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId> <artifactId>jetty-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>${jetty-maven-plugin-version}</version> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>${mysql.groupId}</groupId> <artifactId>${mysql.artifactId}</artifactId> <version>${mysql.jConnect.JDBC.version}</version> <scope>compile</scope> <!-- <systemPath>${env.MYSQL_CONNECTOR_HOME}/mysql-connector-java-5.0.4-bin.jar</systemPath> --> </dependency> </dependencies> <configuration> <jvmArgs>-Xss131072</jvmArgs> <jvmArgs>-Xms40m</jvmArgs> <jvmArgs>-Xmx1024</jvmArgs> <jettyXml>${basedir}/src/main/resources/jetty-env.xml</jettyXml> <webXml>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml</webXml> <jettyEnvXml>${basedir}/src/main/resources/jetty-env.xml</jettyEnvXml>