I am running tomcat 8.0.121. When I start my tomcat, it seems to be eating up
all the memory on my system. I have 16 GB, and it keeps on going. Then when I
try to kill the process, it dies but 12 GB is still being used even though
everything is turn off. The only way to reclaim the memory is to reboot. I am
running on redhat 6.5 and can't figure out what could be causing this. I run
the tomcat as a local user, and I know there aren't any other processes running
as the local user. I am running a spring MVC 4/Java 8/ struts web application.
I have two of them with the same issue. Any help would be appreciated. When I
try to view all the running processes I cannot see where most of the 12 gb are
being used. The system came up with 2.2 gb used and after I start one web
application it goes to 14-15gb. The funny thing is that I can kill it to
reclaim the memory. Only a reboot works. I am running a VMware instance with
vcenter version 6.5. This does not happen with Java 7 with tomcat 7. Any help
would be appreciate.
