you could activate jmxremove to track it in real time via JConsole : Add these to JAVA_OPTS :
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=8090 -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote=true -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false -Djava.awt.headless=true Also commercial products like Jprofiler are definitive good candidates to track memory licks Regards 2008/4/11, Guenter Knauf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > I've a prob with a Tomcat application. > This is an app which was bought by a customer which I work for. > The app runs on a plain WinXP box with nothing else installed on it but only > the Tomcat servive + MySQL server. The app is used through the standalone > http connector; Tomcat version is 5.5.25. > Now since few days the box tends to crash with all memory exhausted... > I cant tell at the moment if any component of the involved software packages > was updated recently. > Now my question is: can someone give me some hints how I can observe the > memory consumption of Tomcat to see if there might be a leak either in Tomcat > self (saw some BZ, and ChangeLog entries that something was fixed with > 5.5.26), or also with their app? > > thanks in advance for any suggestions! > > greets, Guen. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]