Ok, turn on the -verbose:gc and -XX:+PrintGCDetails and see if you could find any strange things in the logs.
I have seen that when the jvm is making big full garbage collection the jvm practicaly halts for several seconds which could cause some strange behaviors. We had for example a xsl-stylesheet which used the mozilla javascript functions and that singe stylesheet generated very big full gc's. Check this page for which options you can run on your version of java 1.5 they are different depending on the versions. http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/hotspot/vmoptions.jsp /Regards Per Jonsson -----Original Message----- From: Jerome Benezech [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: den 14 maj 2007 12:33 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Tomcat Memory Usage Hi, We're on Java 1.5 and do not get any OutOfMemory but after some point, Tomcat uses 50% of the server memory and stops serving requests. --- Per Johnsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > If you get OutOfMemory Errors and running java 1.6 (maybe later > versions of java 1.5) you can make the vm to save a memory dump which > you could load in ie. YourKit java profiler. And After a crach you > could analyse the memroy in your applications. > > I did that resently and it works like a charm. > > This is the parameters I used: > -verbose:gc > -XX:HeapDumpPath=C:\Java\heapdump > -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError > -XX:+PrintGCDetails > > You could also look in the gc_log, sometimes you could see what's > released and what needs correcting when jvm is doing a full gc. > > Hope it helps. > > (If you don't run java6 I can recommend it, faster and better :-) > > /Regards Per Jonsson > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jerome Benezech [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: den 14 maj 2007 11:21 > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: Tomcat Memory Usage > > Hi all, > > I run a cocoon webapp which is hosted on a shared Linux environnement > and runs under tomcat 5.5.9. > There are about 7 applications running under that tomcat instance (2 > cocoon, at least 1 jsp, don't know for the others). > My host provider complains that he tomcat uses a lot of memory and > that he needs to restart it every 4 hours to release the memory. > Tomcat runs as a daemon (started using jsvc) and with the following > parameters: > > jsvc.exec -user tomcat -cp ./bootstrap.jar > -Djava.endorsed.dirs=../common/endorsed > -java.awt.headless=true -Xmx500000000 > -XX:MaxPermSize=300m -debug -outfile > ../logs/catalina.out -errfile ../logs/catalina.err -verbose > org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap > -security > > I'm really not sure where to start looking: memory leak due to bad > programming in the webapp or bad tomcat configuration leading to > memory leaks. > I also noticed there are quiet a few links in google pointing to > problems with Tomcat not releasing memory (objets not getting > garbage-collected), although they are mostly related to Tomcat 4.x. > What is the situation on with Tomcat 5.5.9 ? > > I'm looking for help on what to look for, what configuration > parameters should be used in production environnement, how can I > pinpoint this memory problem ? > > Cheers, > Jerome > > > > > Jerome Benezech > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: > users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ************************************************************************ ******** > This e-mail and the information it contains may be privileged and/or > confidential. 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