Re: Is IBM Right About Java?

2011-02-08 Thread Marco Castillo
Dear Eric: Nop, the GC process returns the memory to the memory pool allocated by the JVM, so the JVM never exhaust its memory resources. The Xmx parameter indeed indicates the maximum amount of memory from the system that the JVM can use and the IBM assertion is true, the JVM never returns the me

Re: How stable is Tomcat?

2010-08-21 Thread Marco Castillo
I totally agree with Michel. We developed a JSF 2.0 application using Tomcat as the web container. Tomcat is as stable as the application you develop. The system we develop hosts a RIA application based on ICEFaces for almost 5000 users and after a lot of debugging and jvm fine tunning, we now have

Tomcat unexpected shutdown on Solaris

2010-06-16 Thread Marco Castillo
Dear List: I have installed Tomcat 6.0.26 with Java 1.6.0_20 in a Solaris 5.10 OS virtualized machine. Everything works fine, but unexpectedly Tomcat shutdowns gracefully. In catalina.out I see the following lines logged: Jun 16, 2010 7:07:18 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol pause INFO: