"I think you are chasing a ghost that isn't actually there." I agree with Chris. You should try to clean the caches and I believe that you will see your memory back "free". Have a look at how to do it here : http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87908/how-do-you-empty-the-buffers-and-cache-on-a-linux-system
2017-03-20 20:27 GMT+01:00 Eric Chua <in_hi...@yahoo.com.invalid>: > blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px > #715FFA solid !important; padding-left:1ex !important; > background-color:white !important; } When I run my application in a windows > environment I use a few hundred megabytes. When I use RHL, it takes up the > entire 16gb of memory in QA with one user within minutes. The memory is > also unaccounted for. My user says I am using a few gigabytes and root > doesn't own hardly anything. > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone > > > On Monday, March 20, 2017, 2:11 PM, Thomas Meyer <tho...@m3y3r.de> wrote: > > > > > With kind regards > Thomas > > Am 17.03.2017 um 14:54 schrieb Christopher Schultz < > ch...@christopherschultz.net>: > >> Note that Java *never* gives any memory back to the OS, even when the > > heap-usage goes down. This is a Java thing, not a Tomcat thing. > > > > Are you sure about this? I think I've read otherwise somewhere. A quick > google showed up this: http://stackoverflow.com/a/30464183 > > With kind regards > Thomas > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > >