I'm just throwing ideas out now, but would it help to set a lower value for
the -Xms parameter?  Would the JVM shrink the heap size down when usage is
low?  (I'm guessing not.)

Or, is there a way to schedule (or force) full garbage collections?

Thanks,
-Bill


Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
> 
>> From: Bill Clarke-Fields [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>> Subject: RE: Very Long Full GC after Inactivity
>> 
>> The problem is that off-hours usage is very different, and 
>> leads to these very long full GCs.
> 
> GC pause time is largely dependent on the number of live objects
> existing at the time of the GC, so yes, it could be an application
> problem.  A profiler will help determine what these objects are.  It's
> definitely unfortunate you can't upgrade, since that precludes you from
> running JConsole.
> 
>  - Chuck
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