On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 00:48 +0200, donnie wrote: > Hey! > > I am running Fedora Core 3 and I seem to be having problem with Tomcat. I am using jakarta-tomcat-5.5.7. > > When I run top I can see that the java process slowly but steadily increases the memory usage %. > > When I check free I can see that -/+ buffers/cache: also decreases. After some time it takes for ever to log on to the machine since it has so little memory left. > > If I shut down the tomcat process all allocated memory is released but the whole chain starts over again when I restart it. > > Any ideas?? > > Thanks a lot! //Tom > The patient told his doctor "It hurts when I do this." The Doctor replied, "Then don't do that." If the java process has a memory leak and is repeatable, file a bug on bugzilla. Search first to see if it has already been reported. Then either don't use it, or live with the pain(inconvenience) until it is fixed.