> From: Steffen Heil [mailto:li...@steffen-heil.de] > Subject: AW: tomcat memory usage > > I am not sure, where the Class objects themselfes reside.
They are in PermGen along with a very few other internally-generated structures. > Whereever they are, static references are in there. Actually, there's no requirement that static fields be in the java.lang.Class instance or even in PermGen, as long as the interpreter, the two JITs, and GC know how to find them. It would be easy to locate static fields on the C heap, with just a pointer in the native part of the java.lang.Class instance to the location. But I believe they actually are in PermGen, since that makes the card table marking easier when a reference field is updated via putstatic. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers.
