RE: Known Memory clean-up issues?

[Justin Rowles <JR...@ordsvy.gov.uk>]

> I checked my servlet code.  It only allocates local variables 
> within the
> request methods.  So the JVM should be cleaning them up but it isn't.
> If I let my test run long enough, I can cause an OutOfMemory exception
> to be thrown by Tomcat.

I logged memory usage on our system and graphed it.  It went down to zero in
a nice straight line and then the jvm started throwing outofmemory
exceptions and all sessions got 500 errors...

> Any harm in forcing garbage collection to run?

...then I wrote a routine that calls system.gc() if the free/total is less
than 20% and called it at the end of request processing.  Now everything is
fine and the graphs are really pretty dogtooth shapes.

So: log, log and log again.  Call System.gc() if you calculate that you need
to, but tuning the jvm may be a better long term solution.

NOW, does anyone know when the damn jspDestroy method should be invoked?!
PLEASE!

Justin.
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